[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] ncurses: Update to 5.9

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com> wrote:
> On 04/05/2011 11:18 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com> wrote:
>>> The previous 5.7 release was relatively close to 5.8 due to it bringing
>>> in a patch to sync with upstream work-in-progress.  We skip over the
>>> 5.8 release and move to 5.9.
>>
>>
>> there already are patches for 5.9 available too
>> ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.9/ncurses-5.9.patch.gz
>
> Wrong link?  That reverse applies to ncurses 5.9 release. But
> regardless, is ncurses something we need to be tracking top of tree for?
>  It seems like we needed to for 5.7 since there had been a lot going on
> without a release but that seems to have changed now.
>

those patches usually contain critical bug fixes including security updates
so it will be of interest to keep track of it

> --
> Tom Rini
> Mentor Graphics Corporation
>