ncurses abi 5

[Jan Rękorajski]

On Sat, 02 Jan 2016, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:

> hi
> 
> why was abi 5 dropped? it's still possible to build it with 6.0, fedora 
> does that.
> 
> and while at it, perhaps some restructuring, like having different 
> packages (subpackage(s)) for abi5 and abi6? name suggestions?
> 
> ncurses-libs for abi6?
> ncurses-libs5, ncurses5-libs, ncurses-compat-libs, compat-ncurses-libs 
> for abi5?

poldek:/all-avail> ls compat-ncurses5-*
compat-ncurses5-5.9.20150117-1.x86_64
compat-ncurses5-ext-5.9.20150117-1.x86_64

> ps: i think base terminfo should be also placed to some subpackage for 
> noarch (ncurses-base? terminfo-minimal?)

The reason being?

-- 
Jan Rękorajski                    | PLD/Linux
SysAdm | baggins<at>pld-linux.org | http://www.pld-linux.org/