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ncurses: 6.1-20190112 -> 6.2 #80016

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@zowoq zowoq commented Feb 13, 2020

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/announce-6.2.html

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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS linux)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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FRidh commented Feb 16, 2020

@GrahamcOfBorg build stdenv python3

@FRidh FRidh moved this from WIP to Needs review in Staging Feb 16, 2020
name = "ncurses-${version}" + lib.optionalString (abiVersion == "5") "-abi5-compat";

# We cannot use fetchFromGitHub (which calls fetchzip)
# because we need to be able to use fetchurlBoot.
src = let
# Note the version needs to be adjusted.
rev = "acb4184f8f69fddd052a3daa8c8675f4bf8ce369";
rev = "v${version}";
in fetchurl {
url = "https://github.com/mirror/ncurses/archive/${rev}.tar.gz";
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What do you think about fetching this directly from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-6.2.tar.gz instead of third party mirror?

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At least development versions got removed often, see 43e867a.

@FRidh FRidh merged commit bb0d036 into NixOS:staging Mar 6, 2020
Staging automation moved this from Needs review to Done Mar 6, 2020
@zowoq zowoq deleted the ncurses branch March 6, 2020 06:04
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