Control: tags -1 confirmed Control: forwarded -1 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
