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Bug#894049: marked as done (transition: ncurses)

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On Sun, May 31, 2020, 1:45 PM Debian Bug Tracking System <
owner@bugs.debian.org> wrote:

> Your message dated Sun, 31 May 2020 20:29:18 +0200
> with message-id <7f60b78d-6907-a4f4-ce15-85a5ba234018@debian.org>
> and subject line Re: Bug#894049: transition: ncurses
> has caused the Debian Bug report #894049,
> regarding transition: ncurses
> to be marked as done.
>
> This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
> If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
> Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
>
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> 894049: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=894049
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 21:51:37 +0200
> Subject: transition: ncurses
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@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.
>
> Suggested ben file (please check if it is correct):
>
> title = "ncurses";
> is_affected = .depends ~
> /\b(lib32ncurses6|lib32ncursesw6|lib32tinfo6|lib64ncurses6|lib64ncursesw6|lib64tinfo6|libncurses6|libncursesw6|libtinfo6|libtinfo6\-udeb|lib32ncurses5|lib32ncursesw5|lib32tinfo5|lib64ncurses5|lib64tinfo5|libncurses5|libncursesw5|libtinfo5|libtinfo5\-udeb)\b/;
> is_good = .depends ~
> /\b(lib32ncurses6|lib32ncursesw6|lib32tinfo6|lib64ncurses6|lib64ncursesw6|lib64tinfo6|libncurses6|libncursesw6|libtinfo6|libtinfo6\-udeb)\b/;
> is_bad = .depends ~
> /\b(lib32ncurses5|lib32ncursesw5|lib32tinfo5|lib64ncurses5|lib64tinfo5|libncurses5|libncursesw5|libtinfo5|libtinfo5\-udeb)\b/
> & ! .package ~ /\b(libncursesw5|libncurses5)\b/;
>
> Thanks for your consideration,
> Sven
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
> To: 894049-done@bugs.debian.org, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 20:29:18 +0200
> Subject: Re: Bug#894049: transition: ncurses
> Hi,
>
> On 12-09-2019 11:18, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > Let's move this report a bit out of the way, but not close it as it
> > isn't really finished.
>
> I think it's all done now. The last pieces of *this* transition are gone.
>
> Paul
>
>

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