Bug 12260

Summary:	ncurses4 == bogus
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede>
Component:	ncurses	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Version:	7.1
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Description Hans de Goede 2000-06-14 15:27:48 UTC

I seriously wonder why there is an ncurses4 package and not just a couple
of symlinks and an provides libncurses.so.4.

Esp since the only change is the .so version, no api changes we're made so
I seriously wonder what the use is of this seperate package.

Also libforms and the other companionlibs for ncurses are missing in the
ncurses4 package.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-06-16 10:25:38 UTC

This is intentional.
There have been no API changes, but there has been a minor ABI change. It
probably doesn't affect anything because it only affects a function I've never
seen used anywhere, but better safe than sorry.

We aren't including libforms and libmenu because we never shipped anything that
uses them.

Comment 2 Hans de Goede 2000-06-16 12:26:23 UTC

If there has been an ABI change, then the ncurses4 package is justified, I
however can't find anything about this in the changelog for ncurses5, and it
seems strange that there is an ABI incompatibility, since for other distros the
major .so number won't change if they upgrade to this build ?!