Re: Bug#55448 acknowledged by developer (recompile bsdgames with ncurses5)

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 10:30:52PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt was heard to say:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 05:57:10PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > If you refuse to be reasonable about this, then we have two choices:
> > 
> > 1. Ship potato with packages that can not be compiled with the source in
> >    potato.
> 
> Why won't they compile if libncurses5-dev is installed instead?

  libncurses4 and libncurses5 aren't entirely interface-compatible; there
are some function prototype changes that could cause problems (for example,
wattr_set takes a different number of arguments), and some functions appear to
have changed behavior (for example, leaveok appears to no longer implicitly hide
the cursor)  Nothing horrendous, but the source for some packages may have to
be patched slightly to work 'out of the box' with libncurses5.

  Daniel

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