ncurses update to 6.0

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 4 August 2015 at 04:33, Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> wrote:
> The ncurses upstream has released a first 6.0 version few months ago.
> The default ABI version has changed to 6, which enables some
> extensions to allow more colors, mouse wheel, etc. The ABI version 5
> is still supported and can be selected with a configure option.
>
> We should switch to the new ABI, but we will probably want to provide
> the old ABI 5 libs even when all Fedora ncurses applications are
> rebuilt with the new ABI to not break 3rd party packages. Dependency
> on libncurses.so.5 or libtinfo.so.5 is pretty common.
>
> As for updating the ncurses package, my current plan is to build the
> libs in both ABIs (so there are four builds total with the wide and
> narrow versions), use the ncurses-libs subpackage for the new ABI 6
> libs and create a new subpackage for ABI 5 libs. What would be a good
> name of the subpackage? ncurses-libs5, ncurses5-libs, compat-ncurses5,
> or something else?
>

Are you looking to do this for F23 branch and rawhide or just rawhide
and have it land in F24 when it is ready? Or is that still to be
determined.



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.