[arch-general] ncurses 5.9_20141101 no longer available

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 5:13 AM, ProgAndy <admin at progandy.de> wrote:
> Am 15.11.2014 um 05:07 schrieb Savya:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014, at 01:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 04:32:14 +0100
>>> Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 5.9_20141101-1
>>>
>>> This isn't the version from the official repositories.
>>>
>>> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Si ncurses
>>> Repository     : core
>>> Name           : ncurses
>>> Version        : 5.9-6
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> Take a look what's enabled in your /etc/pacman.conf.
>>
>> I got the same message while updating, and I'm on the kernel.org mirror.
>>
>
> The package was in testing, but it has been dropped a few days ago.
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:        [arch-dev-public] Dropped ncurses from [testing]
> Date:   Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:08:31 +0100
> From:   Jan Alexander Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com>
> Reply To:       Public mailing list for Arch Linux development
> <arch-dev-public at archlinux.org>
> To:     Arch Linux Public Development List <arch-dev-public at archlinux.org>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I dropped the ncurses prerelease version from [testing]. It had an
> annoying problem with tmux and the screen* terminfos that resulted in
> standout (reverse) being rendered as italic.
>
> Jan

Thank you, I must have accidentally removed the e-mail as I am
subscribed to arch-dev-public.
I did look in the bug tracker, but found nothing there.


On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 04:32:14 +0100
> Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 5.9_20141101-1
>
> This isn't the version from the official repositories.

I know. I've included two links in my e-mail, have you seen them?


Anyway, mystery solved: I need to pay more attention and work on my
due diligence :-)