On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:02:14PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:39 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > Indeed, what would this imply for our LSB compatibility? > > > > http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/libncurses.html > > > > seems to say libncurses.so.5 is the required one, will we lose LSB > > compatibility if we start shipping libncurses.so.6 instead? > > Upstream is doing that change; ncurses can't be forever stalled because > of LSB, you see.
As I understand it, upstream simply mandates either libncurses.so.5 or libncurses.so.6 based on the configure flags for enabling mouse-wheel support. The Debian maintainer has decided to add those flags post-lenny, thus changing the soname. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
