Bug 519

Summary:	upgrade ncurses from 5.7 to 5.8 (latest stable) to fix bugs and add improvements
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Y.LE_NY <yleny>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	ncurese	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Y.LE_NY 2011-03-23 23:09:23 CET

Description of problem:
Mageia 1 Alpha 2 use ncurses 5.7 release 
but the latest stable version is 5.8.
Please upgrade it from 5.7 (2008-11-02) to 5.8 (2011-02-26) to fix bugs and add improvements.

ncurses 5.8 changelog available at
http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/

Sources:
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.8.tar.gz

For better information, latest alsa release in several Linux
Distribution :
Fedora 15 rawhide use 5.8
OpenSuse factory use 5.8
Debian unstable sid use 5.8	
Ubuntu snapshot natty use 5.7
Mandriva cooker use 5.8

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ncurses-5.7-6.20100925.1.mga1


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Y.LE_NY 2011-03-23 23:13:29 CET

note : the only and previous mageia packager for lilo was blino.

Y.LE_NY 2011-03-23 23:55:23 CET

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 2 Y.LE_NY 2011-04-09 20:07:34 CEST

ncurses  is not upgraded from 5.7 to 5.8 in Mageia 1 Beta 1.
Then now, is it for Mageia 2 release ?

http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz

At http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/
the author said :
"This release is designed to be upward compatible from ncurses 5.0 through 5.8; very few applications will require recompilation, depending on the platform. These are the highlights from the change-log since ncurses 5.8 release."

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2011-07-27 18:27:05 CEST

ncurses 5.9 is in cauldron

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Source RPM: (none) => ncurese