On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:49:01AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:32:01PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:10:33AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > > Package: ncurses > > > Version: 5.3.20030719-5 > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > Hi maintainer, > > > > > > In ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ you can find > > > 5.4 version. > > > > > > Please package the latest one as possible as you can. > > > We need especially libncursesw5(-dev) of 5.4 because > > > 5.3 version has a bug of handling utf-8 with lynx-cur. > > > > I'm not planning to do this for a while. Base packages are supposed to > > stop changing so that sarge has a hope of releasing this year; I > > believe the latest date is next week. I don't think bumping up to a > > new release is wise. > > > > Of course, I might be wrong, or the release folks might disagree with > > me - can I get a second opinion here? > > I tend to agree, unless what's currently in sarge is actually a > regression from woody.
Well, at the suggestions of James and Thomas, I've decided to go ahead with 5.4. Sure enough, it makes lynx (in a uxterm!) behave much better. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
