On 2012-01-22 22:30 +0100, Craig Small wrote:
> 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?
It's only a small sample:
,----
| $ apt-cache rdepends libncurses5 | grep -E '(^ lib|-libs$)' | wc -l
| 52
`----
> 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?
It has certainly helped, but libncurses5 has still ~500 reverse
dependencies in unstable. I'm eagerly awaiting "-Wl,--as-needed" to be
added to the default LDFLAGS…
Cheers,
Sven
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