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and subject line Bug#446929: ncurses-bin: references hidden symbols (?)
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Package: ncurses-bin
Version: 5.5-5
Severity: serious
$ infocmp |wc -l
50
$ sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses-bin_5.5-5_i386.deb
dpkg - warning: downgrading ncurses-bin from 5.6+20071006-3 to 5.5-5.
(Reading database ... 53958 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ncurses-bin 5.6+20071006-3 (using
.../ncurses-bin_5.5-5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ncurses-bin ...
Setting up ncurses-bin (5.5-5) ...
$ infocmp |wc -l
infocmp: symbol lookup error: infocmp: undefined symbol: _nc_disable_period
0
My limited understanding leads me to believe that this function wasn't
meant to be exported in ncurses/stable, so was removed or renamed in
ncurses/unstable.
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Justin Pryzby wrote:
> My limited understanding leads me to believe that this function wasn't
> meant to be exported in ncurses/stable, so was removed or renamed in
> ncurses/unstable.
no, it's part of libtic. you can't mix stable and unstable packages of
ncurses; they do not work.
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