diff --git a/libcaca-ncurses6.patch b/libcaca-ncurses6.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a61b334
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libcaca-ncurses6.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Index: libcaca-0.99.beta19/caca/driver/ncurses.c
+===================================================================
+--- libcaca-0.99.beta19.orig/caca/driver/ncurses.c
++++ libcaca-0.99.beta19/caca/driver/ncurses.c
+@@ -262,11 +262,7 @@ static int ncurses_init_graphics(caca_di
+     mouseinterval(-1); /* No click emulation */
+ 
+     /* Set the escape delay to a ridiculously low value */
+-#if defined set_escdelay
+     set_escdelay(10);
+-#else
+-    ESCDELAY = 10;
+-#endif
+ 
+     /* Activate colour */
+     start_color();
diff --git a/libcaca.changes b/libcaca.changes
index d0ea3b1..963b721 100644
--- a/libcaca.changes
+++ b/libcaca.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Sep  2 07:14:17 UTC 2015 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Add libcaca-ncurses6.patch: defined against a function name never
+  worked, so set_escdelay was actually never used. With curses 6.0,
+  though, ESCDELAY is no longer 'a variable', but a reference to a
+  function, so we can't assign anything to it. We just assume that
+  we always use a recent enough version of ncurses to have
+  set_escdelay avaialble.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Mar 20 15:50:59 UTC 2015 - dvlaeev@suse.com
 
diff --git a/libcaca.spec b/libcaca.spec
index 704b1d4..fd143ba 100644
--- a/libcaca.spec
+++ b/libcaca.spec
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Patch4:         libcaca-ruby_am_cflags.patch
 Patch5:         libcaca-ruby_vendor_install.patch
 Patch7:         libcaca-0.99.beta16-missing-GLU.patch
 Patch9:         caca-no-build-date.patch
+Patch10:        libcaca-ncurses6.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %define rb_vendorarch %{_libdir}/ruby/vendor_ruby/%{rb_ver}/%{rb_arch}
 %define rb_vendorlib %{_libdir}/ruby/vendor_ruby/%{rb_ver}
@@ -188,6 +189,7 @@ chmod 0644 %{S:0}
 %patch7
 %patch9
 %patch1
+%patch10 -p1
 RUBY="ruby-`echo %{rb_ver} | sed 's|\.[^\.]*$||'`"
 find . -type f -exec sed -i "s|ruby-1.9|$RUBY|" \{\} \;