On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:58:49AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Unfortunately, switching SONAME seems to be out of the question since > even after the introduction of libtinfo5 we still have dozens of > libraries linking against libncurses. My feeble attempt¹ to fix a few > of them has not changed anything yet. Is that all of them or only a small sample? I wouldn't be too worried yet Sven. If I received a bug report similiar to yours I'd make the change but would not think it important enough to release a new version of the dependent package.
You could always do what I did for libprocps and break all dependent packages... hmmm perhaps not. > In short, we're stuck with the current insane mishmash of > libncurses5/libncursesw5, and I have no idea how to ever get out of this > mess. libtinfo is supposed to help here isn't it? - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 5D2F B320 B825 D939 04D2 0519 3938 F96B DF50 FEA5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
