Re: Bug#55448 acknowledged by developer (recompile bsdgames with ncurses5)
On 23-Jan-00, 13:49 (CST), Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix@hangar.zo> wrote:
> But it IS a fact that debian has had 'duplicate' libraries time and
> again, in at least hamm, slink, and now potato. E.g. in slink there
> were also two ncurses libraries (one of them, ncurses3.4, while being
> in oldlibs, depended on by info, psmisc, procps and ircii at least,
> of which the first three are quite basic unix packages I'd say), and
> also two sets of gtk and glib libraries, namely libgtk1/libglib1 and
> libgtk1.1/libglib1.1. And I wouldn't be surprised if there were other
> such cases as well.
The problem is that the -dev was pulled, which means that when I needed
to make a fix to nvi, I was also forced to update to ncurses5. This
didn't appear to introduce bugs, but it made me nervous. Forcing all the
packages which use curses to update to a major new library version at
the end of the development cycle seems unwise.
Steve
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