[arch-general] Libncurses Problem

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:08:38PM -0400, Robert Spangler wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> First I want to start off by expressing my satisfaction with the Arch  
> Linux distribution.  I've played with about six of them and broke them  
> all within the first week except for this one.  Very hackable and does  
> what I want it to do without fuss.  Nice job.
>
> Now, it doesn't seem as though packages are always updated to link with  
> newer libs.  For instance, I got the new ncurses build a few days ago.  
> Today, when I checked out snownews, it would not work because it was not  
> linked against the new ncurses library.  Of course, using the ABS  
> PKGBUILD file to build my own from source fixed the problem but thought  
> I would alert you all anyways.  It was complaining about not being able  
> to find libncurses.so.5.  Rebuilding it linked it against the new 
> version.
>
> Thanks for a great distro,
> Robby

There are bound to be problems like that and especially with community
packages.
Please make a bug report on the community section of the bugtracker.

Greg