On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:22:07AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Daniel Baumann: > > > Steve Langasek wrote: > >> In that case: no, please fix your ncurses 6 package to provide a proper > >> transition path by adding Provides: libncurses5-dev. > > > > that won't work in all cases, the soname major changes for a reason. > > And which is that? I thought the ncurses ABI was pretty fixed. It's > also part of LSB, isn't it?
Indeed, what would this imply for our LSB compatibility? http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/libncurses.html seems to say libncurses.so.5 is the required one, will we lose LSB compatibility if we start shipping libncurses.so.6 instead? CCing debian-lsb. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
