Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tags -1 moreinfo wontfix
On 2020-06-05 14:35 +0300, Mohammed Alnajdi wrote:
> Package: libncurses5-dev
> Version: 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Installing libncurses5-dev installs libncurses6 from
> libncurses-dev and not
>
> Hello, I noticed that if i install libncurses5-dev i get libncurses6 which
> breaks software which still relay on libncurse5.
I fail to see how it does that, could you please elaborate?
> I believe installing
> libncurses5-dev should bring everything that is libncurses5 not
> libncurses6.
Sorry, not going to happen. In general Debian only provides -dev
packages for the latest ABI of libraries, and ncurses is no exception,
especially as its API has not changed.
If for some reason you need to compile software against the old ABI, use
a chroot for that, e.g. with Debian 9 in it. Or build ncurses yourself.
Cheers,
Sven
