On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote: > This will be necessary -- the ncurses developers have already changed > the shared library version number once since they introduced shared > library support and have indicated they won't hesitate to do so again.
I wondered at the fact that soname was .2.1. > ncurses-base: base terminal definitions That's no problem. It'll be a tiny package, but no big deal. > ncursesNN-lib: shared library only, multiple major versions allowed > ncurses-progs: programs and manual pages And make ncurses-progs dependent upon the appropriate ncursesNN. > Do we really need/want debugging and profiling libraries? No other > packages currently provide these. Fair enough. For my purposes it just means the builds will be faster. > No. The header files should go in /usr/include with > /usr/include/ncurses being a symlink to /usr/include for backwards > compatibility. Remember, ncurses is replacing curses and should be > installed as curses. Please look at the interim version that I did. OK. Mike. -- "I'm a dinosaur. Somebody's digging my bones."