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https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/libncurses6.html

On 25/03/18 21:51, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> 
> I would like to start a transition for ncurses, changing the soname of
> the libraries from 5 to 6.  This affects a large number of packages
> (about 600 of them), but should be doable almost exclusively via
> binNMUs, with two exceptions:
> 
> - libcdk5 needs a sourceful upload and a rename of the library package,
>   neither this package nor its three reverse dependencies should be
>   rebuilt before that.  Please see https://bugs.debian.org/892280 and
>   https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-libcdk5.html.
> 
> - cwidget also needs a sourceful upload and either a package rename or a
>   shlibs bump + versioned Breaks against aptitude, please see
>   https://bugs.debian.org/891161 for details.  Fortunately both cwidget
>   and aptitude currently FTBFS with libncursesw6, so there is no danger
>   of incompatible combinations after binNMUs.
> 
> The packages libtinfo5, libncurses5 and libncursesw5 are still built, so
> only packages depending on the multilib packages and the udeb become
> uninstallable and need to be rebuilt right away: grub, readline and
> screen.
> 
> Apart from cwidget/aptitude, I have not noticed any ncurses related
> FTBFS bugs, and the API is unchanged.  However, there will certainly be
> quite a few unrelated FTBFS problems, such as the recent switch to
> openjdk-9 and the python3.6/python3-distutils breakage.

Please go ahead.

Thanks,
Emilio

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