[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] ncurses-5.8-1

[Emmanuel Benisty]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 28/02/11 09:58, Jelle van der Waa wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 17:06 -0600, Dan McGee wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Loui Chang<louipc.ist at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun 27 Feb 2011 12:01 -0600, Dan McGee wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 27/02/11 10:40, Allan McRae wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Major upstream update.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Test well. There is no soname bump, but experience tells me that some
>>>>>>> rebuilds will probably be required to fix minor issues.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have rebuilt community/stfl to fix a crash (used by newsbeuter).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will start a TODO list to keep track of packages that require moved
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> ncurses.  If you do any rebuilds, please add the package to the list.
>>>>>
>>>>> $ tig
>>>>> tig: Failed to create status window
>>>>>
>>>>> I added it to the list (but didn't rebuild it).
>>>>
>>>> Rebuild won't do it. tig wants to create zero sized windows which
>>>> newwin() doesn't allow anymore. We could patch it with some arbitrary
>>>> size which kind of works, but I emailed the developer to ask how he
>>>> would deal with it.
>>>
>>> Bagh! Thanks for looking into this and following up on the details, I
>>> appreciate it.
>>>
>>> -Dan
>>
>> rtorrent is also broken, reported it upstream
>
> It appears the rtorrent crash is also from setting windows sizes to zero.
>  Here is a patch from a user:
> http://gbpaste.org/dMaa2

works on x86_64.

thanks Allan.