Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

Florian Weimer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general,gmane.linux.debian.devel.lsb
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
* Mike Hommey:

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

AFAICT, the issue is that there aren't enough bits in an int to express
all the button events in the same way as before.  The new ABI reshuffles
the bits to make more room.

It should be possible to make this change in a less invasive way.
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