Re: Bug#236957: new upstream version is available
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:49:01AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
Well, at the suggestions of James and Thomas, I've decided to go ahead
with 5.4. Sure enough, it makes lynx (in a uxterm!) behave much
better.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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