clone 971672 -1
reassign -1 cowdancer
found -1 0.88
retitle -1 cowdancer: uses ncurses in the LD_PRELOADed DLL, making upgrades 
unreliable
thanks

On Sun, 4 Oct 2020, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> > This seems to actually be a cowbuilder problem thus…

Definitively an issue as log.c (part of the DLL) uses curses
making the whole thing fragile.

> It *also* seems to be a bug in ncurses packages (ordering problem):
[…]
> For some reason, libncurses6 does not get ordered before libtinfo6
> during installation, leading to this problem.
> 
> I checked my sid systems (not cowbuilders), and they upgraded cleanly.

Feel free to adjust the severity of the ncurses bug; as this
is an ordering problem only, it MIGHT be nōn-RC… if this does
not break anything on normal systems, that is.

bye,
//mirabilos
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