Re: Bug#55448: recompile bsdgames with ncurses5
Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 11:50:34AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I will be glad to do this, howerver, AFAIK, ncurses5 support throughout
> > debian is not a release goal for potato, and so I will upload only to
> > unstable. If this is not so, someone please tell me.
> In an official document (forgot where) I read all packages in base must be
> rebuilt with ncurses5, all others should be, but don't have to.
> Sounds ok, doesnt it? But on second thought, it sounds a bit short sighted.
>
> ncurses4-dev has been removed from potato, I dont have it anymore for m68k
> (and if, only in a version not matching ncurses4), any current potato
> systems should not have it either.
Hm, sounds like it was removed prematurely.
> So all packages built with ncurses4 can not be rebuilt on a potato system,
> they are (I am exagerating) binary-only packages, do they fit into main?
> When you built the package, ncurses4-dev was probably still existing, when
> when I ported it, it was not, is it my fault since I was too late? With the
> Build-Depends of the package, I can not build it as it is, I would have to
> manually override your Build-Depends, considering the number of packages
> which still have to be recompiled for m68k (and other arches), I find this a
> bad idea. But I did this, the m68k deb would be linked against ncurses5 (if
> it works that easy) but the i386 deb not. I dont think this is desirable.
>
> So I think ncurses4 needs a second thought, either we get ncurses4-dev back
> and put it into potato, or _all_ ncurses4 packages have to be rebuilt with
> ncurses5.
Well the former certianly seems like the simple fix.
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