New comment by q66 on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/23862#issuecomment-664075895 Comment: ncurses5 and ncurses6 are not ABI compatible, you can configure ncurses6 to use ABI version 5, but not both at once @ahesford opensuse and debian as well as others probably provide both 5 and 6, but they're separate builds, e.g. like we do widechar and non-widechar builds right now, we'd also need to add two more builds for the ABI version 5 either way, a symlink won't cut it and this PR was rightfully closed I don't think there's a need to have builds for 5, we don't have any responsibility to cater to third party proprietary binaries we don't package, if you want ncurses5 obtain it through other means, if it works with the symlinks then keep your own symlinks but that's only by chance that it works and they definitely shouldn't be packaged