Bug 12260 - ncurses4 == bogus
Summary: ncurses4 == bogus
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: ncurses
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-06-14 15:27 UTC by Hans de Goede
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-06-14 15:27:50 UTC
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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 ?!





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