ncurses update to 6.0

Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar at redhat.com
Wed Aug 5 06:55:22 UTC 2015


On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 10:09:34AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 4 August 2015 at 04:33, Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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.

I was thinking about doing this in rawhide only with no
ncurses-specific rebuilds. After the next mass rebuild everything
that didn't FTBFS should be using the ABI 6 libs.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar


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