Bug#894049: transition: ncurses
Control: tags -1 confirmed
Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/libncurses6.html
On 25/03/18 21:51, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
>
> I would like to start a transition for ncurses, changing the soname of
> the libraries from 5 to 6. This affects a large number of packages
> (about 600 of them), but should be doable almost exclusively via
> binNMUs, with two exceptions:
>
> - libcdk5 needs a sourceful upload and a rename of the library package,
> neither this package nor its three reverse dependencies should be
> rebuilt before that. Please see https://bugs.debian.org/892280 and
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-libcdk5.html.
>
> - cwidget also needs a sourceful upload and either a package rename or a
> shlibs bump + versioned Breaks against aptitude, please see
> https://bugs.debian.org/891161 for details. Fortunately both cwidget
> and aptitude currently FTBFS with libncursesw6, so there is no danger
> of incompatible combinations after binNMUs.
>
> The packages libtinfo5, libncurses5 and libncursesw5 are still built, so
> only packages depending on the multilib packages and the udeb become
> uninstallable and need to be rebuilt right away: grub, readline and
> screen.
>
> Apart from cwidget/aptitude, I have not noticed any ncurses related
> FTBFS bugs, and the API is unchanged. However, there will certainly be
> quite a few unrelated FTBFS problems, such as the recent switch to
> openjdk-9 and the python3.6/python3-distutils breakage.
Please go ahead.
Thanks,
Emilio
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