Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

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. So, as far as I know, what will be needed is for the
> LSB to be updated, at some point, and while this isn't done, and perhaps
> for some time after that, distributions will need to keep on shipping
> libncurses.so.5 along with .so.6, when LSB compatibility is needed.

LSB will follow what upstream is doing once it's widespread in distros.  
Hopefully
they'll all make the same choice, or we will have a problem. The need 
for .so.5 won't
go away since there's always a backward compatibility requirement, but 
normally
bumping the so-version means they can coexist.  Julien is suggesting 
this is not so? 
Does one ever have multiple curses programs managing the same screen 
concurrently?
Don't even think that makes sense.