[arch-general] Is ncurses in Arch Linux out-dated?

[Chi Hsuan Yen]

Thanks Maarten, now I know my next step :)

On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Maarten de Vries <maarten at de-vri.es>
wrote:

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> On 21 August 2016 at 15:40, Chi Hsuan Yen via arch-general <
> arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Archers,
>>
>> ncurses 6.0 is released in 2015/08/08. It has some bugs and part of them
>> are fixed. For example, I was just hit by http://bugs.python.org/issue27
>> 323.
>> On bug-ncurses mailing list there are some patch versions. The latest one
>> is 6.0-20160820:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2016-08/msg00010.html. If I
>> want to fix the aforementioned Python issue, should Arch Linux
>>
>>     1) Bump the ncurses package to 6.0-20160820, or
>>     2) Just backport the relevant patch
>>
>> For 1), I just need to flag to package out-of-date, for 2), I have to
>> submit a bug and request backporting.
>>
>
> ​In general Arch Linux packagers don't really do back porting. They try to
> stay as close to upstream releases as possible. So the best thing you can
> do is flag the package as out-of-date. If you don't want to wait for the
> packagers, you can use ABS [1] to download the PKGBUILD and modify it to to
> your need in the mean time.
>
> [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten de Vries
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