Thanks Maarten, now I know my next step :) On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Maarten de Vries <maarten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 21 August 2016 at 15:40, Chi Hsuan Yen via arch-general < > arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 For 1), I just need to flag to package out-of-date, for 2), I have to 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 do is flag the package as out-of-date.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 > >
