Re: ncurses 6.0 packages for fink base

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Daniel Johnson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> > On Oct 7, 2016, at 6:55 AM, Jack Howarth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Daniel Johnson <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Oct 6, 2016, at 1:32 PM, Jack Howarth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > Note I forgot to update the version in libncursesw5.info and
> ncurses.info to match and have now done so.
> >
> > The ncurses5 packages build with --with-abi-version=5 to be backward
> compatible while using the 6.0 source. The ncurses6 packages only use
> --with-abi-version=6. We’re going to need both for some time until
> everything can get updated. This way they can coexist.
> >
> >
> > I think you are still missing one step to fully mimic the Fedora
> packaging approach. You need to convert your current ncurses.info into a
> libncurses5.info which no longer contains the ncurses split-off and move
> that one into libncurses6 instead (which could be refactored back into a
> ncurses.info)
>
> I didn’t do that because ncurses5 is Essential. I wasn’t sure what the
> interactions would be. That’s why I wanted others to weigh in.
>

I would assume that ncurse6 will also need to be Essential as the logical
move is to start migrating packages to it and readline7 at the same time.


>
> Daniel
>
>

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