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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:03:07 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS-UP: Library version number bumps
Message-ID:  <20040929170306.GA9694@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040929165631.GA26065@saltmine.radix.net>
References:  <20040929030546.GE16305@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20040929092710.GA59303@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20040929163732.GA9182@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040929165631.GA26065@saltmine.radix.net>

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On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 12:56:31PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:37:32AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 07:27:10PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:05:46PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> > > >=20
> > > > >From the "Better late than never" Department...
> > > >=20
> > > > It looks like we should probably bump the version of a couple of
> > > > the system libraries.  With LOTS of help from Kris it looks like
> > > > this is the list we think needs a version bump, with the version
> > > > from 4.X being placed in compat4x:
> > > >=20
> > > >        libgnuregex.so.2
> > > >        libhistory.so.4
> > > >        libm.so.2
> > > >        libncurses.so.5
>=20
> This is ncurses 5.2
> I understood the comment for "4.X" to denote the FreeBSD 4.9 (or whatever=
).

Correct.  FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE also has a libncurses.so.5, with the
aforementioned properties when someone runs a FreeBSD 4.x ncurses
binary on a FreeBSD 5.x system.  Looking at the contrib/ncurses
directories, it looks like those versions are ncurses-5.1 and
ncurses-5.2-20010512 respectively.

Kris
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