Re: ncurses 6.0 packages for fink base

I noticed that Fedora is building both --with-abi-version=5 and
--with-abi-version=6 in their ncurses 6.0 package...

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/ncurses.git/tree/ncurses.spec

but that the installed headers will only be for the --with-abi-version=6
build. Thus the legacy --with-abi-version=5 shlibs are only there for
back-ward compatibility and not new builds.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Jack Howarth <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Daniel Johnson <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On Oct 6, 2016, at 10:19 AM, Jack Howarth <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Chris,
>> >      I've posted packaging for libncursesw6-6.0-1 and ncurses6-6.0-1 to
>> fink tracking...
>> >
>> > https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/package-submissions/4803/
>> >
>> > as well as an update to libncursesw5-5.9-20110507-2 to make it aware of
>> libncursesw6.
>> >
>> > https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/package-submissions/4804/
>> >
>> > The only part that I am concerned about is that handling of the
>> overlapping files between the ncurses and ncurses6 packages as both are
>> marked as Essential. So far, simply appending ncurses to the Replaces field
>> in the ncurses6 packages seems to be sufficient to handle that issue.
>> >            Jack
>>
>> There’s no reason to have a libncursesw6 package. Just have one
>> libncurses6 package that always uses wide chars and have it C/R with
>> regular ncurses. I posted packages to my experimental cvs dir quite a while
>> ago and asked for opinions but nothing came of it. There’s also newer
>> versions available. Most recent version is http://invisible-mirror.net/ar
>> chives/ncurses/current/ncurses-6.0-20161001.tgz. Packages are at
>> http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fink/experimental/danielj/
>>
>>
> I replaced the proposed ncurses6.info with libncurses6-shlibs.info to
> allow for the common ncurses split-off (in case they decide to go with a
> separate libncursesw6 package and not use --with-abi-version=5).
>         Jack
> ps The only only Distro that I see using --with-abi-version=5 is Debian
> but they appear to build completely with -with-abi-version=5 and never use
> -with-abi-version=6 at all.
>
> Daniel
>>
>>
>>
>

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