Re: Bug#236957: new upstream version is available
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:32:01PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:10:33AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > Package: ncurses
> > Version: 5.3.20030719-5
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > Hi maintainer,
> >
> > In ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ you can find
> > 5.4 version.
> >
> > Please package the latest one as possible as you can.
> > We need especially libncursesw5(-dev) of 5.4 because
> > 5.3 version has a bug of handling utf-8 with lynx-cur.
>
> I'm not planning to do this for a while. Base packages are supposed to
> stop changing so that sarge has a hope of releasing this year; I
> believe the latest date is next week. I don't think bumping up to a
> new release is wise.
>
> Of course, I might be wrong, or the release folks might disagree with
> me - can I get a second opinion here?
I tend to agree, unless what's currently in sarge is actually a
regression from woody.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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