[arch-dev-public] Automated rebuild for ncurses 6.0 in progress

[Evangelos Foutras]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Evangelos Foutras
<evangelos at foutrelis.com> wrote:
> 1) TeXLive 2015 is currently in [testing] but only texlive-bin is part
> of the rebuilds. Therefore, we must wait until TeXLive 2015 leaves
> [testing] before moving the ncurses stuff out of the staging repos.

Done.

> 2) vagrant repackages upstream binaries and contains two files that link
> to libncursesw.so.5:
>
>   opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/x86_64-linux/readline.so
>   opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/x86_64-linux/curses.so

Fixed.

> 3) cuda repackages upstream binaries and contains one file linking to
> libncurses.so.5:
>
>   opt/cuda/bin/cuda-gdb

Won't fix.

> The above packages may or may not work properly after the move; depends
> on whether the binaries/libraries linking to old ncurses are important
> to their function.
>
> Personally, I feel that cuda can be left as is. Vagrant on the other
> hand, being open source, can most likely be changed to build from source
> instead of repackaging upstream binaries. I'll poke both packages'
> maintainers on IRC to see what we can do.

Rebuilds are now in testing!