Re: ANN: ncurses-6.1-20190824

[Milan P . Stanić]

On Sun, 2019-08-25 at 17:59, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 08:21:41PM +0200, Milan P. Stanić wrote:
> ...
> > I am new to the ncurses and this mailing list and I have question about
> > stable and development release. I would like to keep and update stable
> > release for Alpine Linux (or to help current maintainer) to be in sane
> > state.
> > 
> > I understand that the latest stable release is:
> > https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/ncurses-6.1.tar.gz
> > and the patches for stable release are in:
> > https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/6.1/
> 
> sure -
> 
> https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#other_versions
> 
> but as noted in the FAQ, those patches are "development"
> 
> https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#where_patches
>  
> > Also https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/current/ looks like
> > development releases.
> 
> Those are tarballs corresponding to the patches (some packagers don't
> work with patches, and then some can't handle tarballs either :-)
>  
> > Is my guess correct or I'm wrong?
> > 
> > Or you can explain me how to use stable ncurses for linux distribution.
> 
> alpine already is using development versions of ncurses - seen here:
> 
> https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/blob/master/main/ncurses/APKBUILD

Yes, I know, I pushed upgrade to 6.1-20190518 there.
 
> ("stable" is a reference point, but bug-fixes are done in "development")

So, we are in good state using current development which is at the same
time bug release.

Thank you for explanation.

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Regards