[PATCH v2 0/4] ncurses: refactor and bump to 6.6.20260801

[Robert Marko]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 at 06:48, Charlie Jenkins
<thecharlesjenkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ncurses occasionally releases major version snapshots, but much more
> frequently releases minor version snapshots with bug fixes and
> improvements.
>
> Migrate the ncurses package to cloning from git to get access to the
> minor version releases. In this process, also bump ncurses to the
> most-up-to-date version and fix a long standing bug in the terminfo
> installation on the host that has since been upgraded from a build
> warning to error.
>
> The final improvement in this series is to add a config option
> CONFIG_LIBNCURSES_TERMINFO for installing additional terminfo files to
> avoid growing the list of defaults installed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <thecharlesjenkins at gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Move Config.in introduction into the proper commit

Merged, thanks.

Regards,
Robert
>
> ---
> Charlie Jenkins (4):
>       ncurses: Add CONFIG_LIBNCURSES_TERMINFO
>       ncurses: Change from using packaged tarballs to git releases
>       ncurses: Skip terminfo database install on host
>       ncurses: bump to 6.6.20260801
>
>  package/libs/ncurses/Config.in                     |  13 ++
>  package/libs/ncurses/Makefile                      |  25 ++-
>  .../patches/100-ncurses-5.6-20080112-urxvt.patch   | 175 ---------------------
>  .../patches/101-ncurses-5.6-20080628-kbs.patch     |  52 ------
>  .../ncurses/patches/102-ncurses-5.9-gcc-5.patch    |  44 ------
>  .../patches/103-ncurses-ar-determinism.patch       |  22 ---
>  .../ncurses/patches/200-fix_missing_include.patch  |  14 --
>  package/libs/ncurses/patches/900-terminfo.patch    |  20 ---
>  8 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 335 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: aca2c21ebc8026247a0848a9bc4d7e1cf3757c3a
> change-id: 20260814-ncurses-9f36673eec33
>
> Best regards,
> --
> - Charlie
>