ncurses update to 6.0

[Neal Gompa]

On Aug 5, 2015 2:55 AM, "Miroslav Lichvar" <mlichvar at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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If you can provide both versions, I don't see a reason to not provide it in
Fedora 23 branch too. We could just not force a rebuild in the branch and
do that only in rawhide.
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