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On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 23:18 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Tom Rini <tom_rini@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

Can someone summarise what the benefits of these patches are? I'm
trying to figure out whether we lose anything due to this upgrade or
not...

Cheers,

Richard