On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 08:10:19PM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> >1) My own stupid fault; I messed up the upload so it has not autobuilt
> >for other architectures, including PowerPC.  I will fix that now.
> >
> >2) The dependencies in ncurses-base do not prevent using it with the
> >old library; is this compatibility problem big enough to justify that
> >(annoying) change?
> 
> Actually it hadn't occurred to me that someone would have (after upgrade)
> an older ncurses library and a newer terminfo.  While ncurses-base doesn't
> have to require ncurses (slang may use it, right?), it would be nice if
> upgrading ncurses-base would also upgrade the library when it's installed.
> 
> But ncurses library is required, right?

Right.  Actually, it looks like I may have goofed: ncurses-base is
Essential, and libncurses5 wasn't.  I'll talk to the release managers.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC


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