Hi,

I cannot work on cooker for 24 hours now, I pinged in irc when
detected the problem but nobody commented :-(

The issue is that ncurses was updated, and it changed major of
libncursesw. It did properly follow Mandriva libname specs changing
the major of the package, e.g. changed libncursesw5 to libncursesw6,
*but* when publishing, "abf" just removed all packages generated
by the previous ncurses, that included libncursesw5.

Now the cooker build system is broken because it cannot install
bash, that requires libncursesw5.

Some months ago this issue had raised, about Mandriva library
specs, and where I told I had been using fedora semantics for
several of my packages, since I knew the abf issue, and was
not against it, but we need to change policy or change how abf
works when there is a soname bump.

Anyway, to fix the cooker issue, I hereby request some kind of
abf access, maybe a way to upload files, e.g. rebuild bash
locally with the newer libncursesw (but I would do it only for
i586 and x86_64) and upload it, at least this way I would not
be blocked from working for at least 24 hours.

Thanks,
Paulo

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