Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

[Reinhard Tartler <siretart@debian.org>]

Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> writes:

>> Upstream is doing that change; ncurses can't be forever stalled because
>> of LSB, you see. 
>
> As I understand it, upstream simply mandates either libncurses.so.5 or
> libncurses.so.6 based on the configure flags for enabling mouse-wheel
> support.  The Debian maintainer has decided to add those flags
> post-lenny, thus changing the soname.

So the obvious solution seems to me then to build ncurses twice,
providing both libncurses5 and libncurses6 packages. What point do I miss?

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