HEADS-UP: Library version number bumps

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:31:00AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 07:27:10PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:05:46PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> > > 
> > > >From the "Better late than never" Department...
> > > 
> > > It looks like we should probably bump the version of a couple of
> > > the system libraries.  With LOTS of help from Kris it looks like
> > > this is the list we think needs a version bump, with the version
> > > from 4.X being placed in compat4x:
> > > 
> > >        libgnuregex.so.2
> > >        libhistory.so.4
> > >        libm.so.2
> > >        libncurses.so.5
....hmmm
> > Why do they need to be bumped? Why use the version from 4.x? It sounds like
> > this will break a lot of 5.x binaries.
> > 
> 
> They need to be bumped because the internal workings of the libraries

that doesn't answer the question (libncurses hasn't changed its interface for
some time - unless you're stating that the dynamic linker's changed
incompatibly in some fashion).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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