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FS#11268 - ncurses does not provide libncurses.so.5 anymore

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Andreas Hauser (buggs) - Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 11:19 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 14:38 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
ncurses does not provide libncurses.so.5 anymore.
This breaks many packages depending on ncurses, which need a rebuild.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

5.6-7

* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 14:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 12:10 GMT
All the packages in [core] and [extra] should be rebuilt and sitting in the [testing] repo with the new ncurses package. If not, then file bug reports for individual packages. Packages in [community] will get updated when the move from [testing] happens.
Comment by Andreas Hauser (buggs) - Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 14:37 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
So why not just continue building libncurses.so.5 like it used too?
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 14:38 GMT
Because, this way is better once the rebuilds are done. It means all programs that use ncurses will have better support for multi-byte characters.

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