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From: q66 <q66@users.noreply.github.com>
To: ml@inbox.vuxu.org
Subject: Re: ncurses-libs: provide libncurses.so.5
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 03:44:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200727014412.ZVTeDte385s7yawEa3PNmYct0e4KC5aL5V4QNOko9jM@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gh-mailinglist-notifications-41a7ca26-5023-4802-975b-f1789d68868e-void-packages-23862@inbox.vuxu.org>

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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 (the build will create `.so.5` or `.so.6` libs depending on the ABI you set)

@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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-27  1:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-27  0:54 [PR PATCH] " gt7-void
2020-07-27  1:25 ` ahesford
2020-07-27  1:25 ` [PR PATCH] [Closed]: " ahesford
2020-07-27  1:42 ` q66
2020-07-27  1:44 ` q66 [this message]
2020-07-27  1:48 ` q66
2020-07-27  2:01 ` gt7-void
2020-07-27  2:08 ` q66
2020-07-27  2:10 ` q66
2020-07-27  2:43 ` gt7-void
2020-07-27  2:51 ` ericonr

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