Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
It certainly is for lynx - try looking at any of, e.g. noel@'s packages in the BTS with sarge's lynx and notice how it mangles his name. OTOH, it can probably be fixed by downgrading to libncurses5 (i.e. non-wide), but that sucks too. -- James
