[fink-core] Re: ncurses upgrade plan

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Chris Zubrzycki wrote:
| Hey all, I just wanted to let everyone know that I believe that we
| finally have a way to fix the ABI version in ncurses, without causing
| current packages to break. New libs, with a fixed ABI will live in
| /sw/lib/ncurses/. There will be a last update to the ncurses package,
| changing only the contents of the splitoffs, and a new package,
| ncurses5. ncurses5 will now include wide character support, with the
| wide libraries going into ncurses5w-shlibs. The new ncurses splitoff
| will be empty, and depend on ncurses5, as only binaries are in this
| package. ncurses-dev will continue to exist and be usable, but all new
| deps will be against ncurses5-dev. .info files are located in
| exp/beren12/base, and I encourage all core Developers to test the new
| packages to make sure there are no problems upgrading (none reported so
| far ;-)
|
| I hope to be committing this soon, pending positive reports.
|
Workd for me (tm)

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