On 08/25/2011 06:02 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-08-25 15:56 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> 
>> tag 631592 + patch
>> thanks
>>
>> On 06/25/2011 06:34 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>> tags 631592 + help
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> On 2011-06-25 09:37 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
>>>
>>>> Package: ncurses
>>>> Version: 5.9-1
>>>> Severity: important
>>>>
>>>> ncurses should be configured with --with-termlib so that packages which do 
>>>> not
>>>> rely on the symbols exported by ncurses/ncursesw, but only on symbols 
>>>> found in
>>>> libtermlib.
>>>
>>> I concur that this is desirable, but it breaks the ABI.
>>
>> No, it does not.  See the attached patch. The idea is that the new libtinfo5
>> remains "invisible", by forcing to link with -ltinfo when you link with
>> -lncurses or -lncursesw.
> 
> Thanks for the patch, but you had better base it on git master rather
> than the version in unstable.  Could you please adapt it to the
> multiarch related changes?  Both libtinfo5 and libtinfo5-dev should be
> "Multi-Arch: same" then.

well, please merge it. I already spent too much time on this. Given your wrong
claim of breaking the ABI, please go ahead and merge it.

  Matthias



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