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           Summary: ncurses 5.4 -> 5.5 upgrade has issues
           Product: Codex
           Version: test grimoire
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: libs
        AssignedTo: sm-grimoire-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org


Upgrading ncurses 5.4 to 5.5 can fail with the following error:

============================================
sh ./run_tic.sh
** Building terminfo database, please wait...
Running tic to install /usr/share/terminfo ...

        You may see messages regarding extended capabilities, e.g., AX.
        These are extended terminal capabilities which are compiled
        using
                tic -x
        If you have ncurses 4.2 applications, you should read the INSTALL
        document, and install the terminfo without the -x option.

tic: symbol lookup error: tic: undefined symbol: _nc_check_termtype2
? tic could not build /usr/share/terminfo
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ncurses-5.5/misc'
make[1]: *** [install.data] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2
Creating compile log /var/log/sorcery/compile/ncurses-5.5.bz2

Spells that encountered problems:
---------------------------------
ncurses
============================================

This happens during the install stage, after the old ncurses has been 
dispelled.
 Google yields:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2005-08/msg00022.html which
explains the issue.

Oddly enough, after breaking this can be fixed by doing:
echo ncurses:20051001:installed:5.4 >> /var/state/sorcery/packages && cast -c
ncurses
*Just* trying the cast again won't work, it has to be re-added to
/v/s/s/packages and cast using cast -c.  I don't know why this is, but it's
completely reproducible here.

There have been 2 more reports of this happening on IRC so far.  I've seen 
some
indication that an UTF-enabled ncurses *doesn't* fail the first upgrade 
attempt,
so it may not be reproducible there.

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