Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 05:07:01PM +0200, Michael Banck <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

... and they couldn't add mouse-wheel support without breaking ABI ?

Mike