[arch-dev-public] [signoff] ncurses 5.6-8

Jan de Groot jan at jgc.homeip.net
Sun Aug 31 08:36:17 EDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 21:20 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been told that not including the libncurses.so.5 library breaks 
> "many, many, many" binary blobs so I had to re-include that in the 
> ncurses package.  Building on Arch will still link to the wide-character 
> libraries.  It does now mean that the total rebuild was not necessary 
> but given over two thirds of the packages rebuilt had some sort of 
> clean-up (license/arch/md5sum/man page) and that wide-character support 
> is good, it was not a complete waste. 
> 
> So signoff both arches please.  I would like to move these on Monday if 
> possible.
> 
> As a reminder of the [core] rebuilds that occured are:
> 
> bash
> readline
> dialog
> gettext
> grub
> less
> nano
> procinfo
> procps
> psmisc
> texinfo
> util-linux-ng (see below)
> vi (see below)
> gpm
> heimdal
> initscrits
> isdn4k-utils
> links
> netkit-telnet
> 
> For your information, the following packages were not just plain 
> rebuilds and so probably require more attention in signing off:
> vi - bump to the latest patchset
> util-linux-ng - Required update and switch to the newer cryptloop 
> support patch mentioned in an old comment in the previous PKGBUILD to build
> 
> Cheers,
> Allan

signed off for x86_64.




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