[Buildroot] [PATCH/next 1/1] package/ncurses: bump to version 6.2

Adam Duskett aduskett at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 22:30:39 UTC 2020


Hello;

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 2:26 PM Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> +Thomas DS, since he added all the patches for ncurses 6.1
>
> On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 15:20:15 -0800
> aduskett at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > From: Adam Duskett <Aduskett at gmail.com>
> >
> > Other changes:
> >   - Update hash for the license file due to copyright year changes.
> >   - Remove patches that are incorporated in this version.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <Aduskett at gmail.com>
>
> But then, shouldn't we add all of the ncurses-6.2 patches available at
> https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/6.2/. I remember Thomas
> DS discussed ncurses patches during the latest Buildroot meeting, and a
> number of them (at least for ncurses 6.1) contained security fixes.
>
Sure, but this patch is quite old, and only 4 of those patches were available at
the time of this patch.

Do you want me to respin again? It seems like if the next patch sits for another
2 or three months I would then have to respin again as well.

Let me know!
Adam

> It's not clear what those patches are though, as they seem to contain
> also the 6.1 -> 6.2 changes.
>
> Thomas
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> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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