FS#65260 - [ncurses] switch to development releases

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by xduugu (xduugu) - Friday, 24 January 2020, 21:08 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Monday, 17 February 2020, 11:47 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Please consider following development releases of ncurses. Alpine Linux packages development releases[1] and even Debian (Buster) contains a newer ncurses release[2] than Archlinux.

According to the ncurses maintainer [3]
> "stable" is a reference point, but bug-fixes are done in "development"

Additional info:
* ncurses 6.1-7

[1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/blob/master/main/ncurses/APKBUILD
[2] https://packages.debian.org/buster/libncurses6
[3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-08/msg00038.html
This task depends upon

Closed by  freswa (frederik)
Monday, 17 February 2020, 11:47 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  ncurses 6.2-1
Comment by xduugu (xduugu) - Wednesday, 05 February 2020, 11:27 GMT
Thanks a lot for updating the ncurses package in testing. Could you also add a "replaces" directive (and possibly a "provides") for the package alacritty-terminfo?

> error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
> ncurses: /usr/share/terminfo/a/alacritty exists in filesystem (owned by alacritty-terminfo)
> ncurses: /usr/share/terminfo/a/alacritty-direct exists in filesystem (owned by alacritty-terminfo)
> Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Loading...