Re: Bug#236957: new upstream version is available
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
It certainly is for lynx - try looking at any of, e.g. noel@'s
packages in the BTS with sarge's lynx and notice how it mangles his
name.
OTOH, it can probably be fixed by downgrading to libncurses5
(i.e. non-wide), but that sucks too.
--
James
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