On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> On Jun 6, Vincent Renardias wrote
> >
> > What's the current Debian policy w.r.t. curses?
> >
> > I have 6 packages (most with outstanding bugs) that I can't upload
> > anymore because I don't have any machine around with libc5, and we don't
> > have any libc6 compiled curses. So what should we do?
>
> same here. i was too fast, and now i have to downgrade all packages to
> compile with libc5. (i want to create binaryies for libc5 and libc6).
> but i have the same problem with tcl, tk and x11.
>
> what about having a timetable for creating new libs, altdev packages and
> converting packages to libc6 ?
it's good idea, but since ncurses is orphaned this won't help for this
package. Is the libc6 maintainer opposed to maintain ncurses as a libc6
add-on (Or si someone willing to adopt ncurses)?
Cordialement,
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