[arch-general] Is ncurses in Arch Linux out-dated?
Hi Archers, ncurses 6.0 is released in 2015/08/08. It has some bugs and part of them are fixed. For example, I was just hit by http://bugs.python.org/issue27323. On bug-ncurses mailing list there are some patch versions. The latest one is 6.0-20160820: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2016-08/msg00010.html. If I want to fix the aforementioned Python issue, should Arch Linux 1) Bump the ncurses package to 6.0-20160820, or 2) Just backport the relevant patch For 1), I just need to flag to package out-of-date, for 2), I have to submit a bug and request backporting. Any similar cases in other packages? Best, Yen Chi Hsuan
On 21 August 2016 at 15:40, Chi Hsuan Yen via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hi Archers,
ncurses 6.0 is released in 2015/08/08. It has some bugs and part of them are fixed. For example, I was just hit by http://bugs.python.org/ issue27323. On bug-ncurses mailing list there are some patch versions. The latest one is 6.0-20160820: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2016-08/msg00010.html. If I want to fix the aforementioned Python issue, should Arch Linux
1) Bump the ncurses package to 6.0-20160820, or 2) Just backport the relevant patch
For 1), I just need to flag to package out-of-date, for 2), I have to submit a bug and request backporting.
In general Arch Linux packagers don't really do back porting. They try to stay as close to upstream releases as possible. So the best thing you can do is flag the package as out-of-date. If you don't want to wait for the packagers, you can use ABS [1] to download the PKGBUILD and modify it to to your need in the mean time. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System Hope this helps, Maarten de Vries
Thanks Maarten, now I know my next step :)
On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Maarten de Vries
On 21 August 2016 at 15:40, Chi Hsuan Yen via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hi Archers,
ncurses 6.0 is released in 2015/08/08. It has some bugs and part of them are fixed. For example, I was just hit by http://bugs.python.org/issue27 323. On bug-ncurses mailing list there are some patch versions. The latest one is 6.0-20160820: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2016-08/msg00010.html. If I want to fix the aforementioned Python issue, should Arch Linux
1) Bump the ncurses package to 6.0-20160820, or 2) Just backport the relevant patch
For 1), I just need to flag to package out-of-date, for 2), I have to submit a bug and request backporting.
In general Arch Linux packagers don't really do back porting. They try to stay as close to upstream releases as possible. So the best thing you can do is flag the package as out-of-date. If you don't want to wait for the packagers, you can use ABS [1] to download the PKGBUILD and modify it to to your need in the mean time.
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System
Hope this helps, Maarten de Vries
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