ncurses update to 6.0

Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar at redhat.com
Mon Aug 10 08:57:46 UTC 2015


On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 08:34:56PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> 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:
> > > 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.

> 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.

I'm not sure, it seems odd to me to have packages in a Fedora release
which change their dependencies (e.g. libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.6)
after rebuild. Are others ok with that?

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar


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