On 2018-02-25 00:55 +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> 2018-02-24 8:54 GMT+01:00 Sven Joachim <[email protected]>:
>>
>> So here is a possible plan:
>>
>> - Do *not* fix this bug in unstable now, to exclude the possibility of
>> the above symbol lookup error after a cwidget rebuild when the ncurses
>> transition starts.
>>
>> - After ncurses has been accepted in experimental, upload cwidget there
>> too. Rename the library package again, say to libcwidget3v6, and
>> build-depend on libncurses-dev (>= 6.0+20180210) to ensure that it gets
>> linked against libncursesw6 rather than libncursesw5.
>>
>> - When the ncurses transition starts in unstable, both aptitude and
>> cwidget still FTBFS. Upload the new cwidget package to unstable, get
>> aptitude binNMU'ed, and everyone is happy.
>>
>> Does this sound reasonable?
>
> Yes, with the following comments/caveats (mostly reminders for myself,
> or somebody else if ends up doing this):
>
> - the "v5" suffix was for the GCC5 transition (changes due to C++11
> ABI), the name should be "libcwidget4" or something. I wanted to
> change a couple of minor things and bump the soversion anyway, just
> never find the time to sort out all of the details, so let's see :)
Do you think you can finish these changes this month? So far I have
only found one other showstopper[1] for the ncurses transition, and I
intend to file a bug against release.debian.org in 2-3 weeks if nothing
else crops up.
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892280
