If the patch is too long to be accepted for now, how about starting
with replacing libncurses5 with libncursesw5?  Just replacing, without
touching other things, is also useful.

The only problem is that libncursesw5 is not in base...  but 
after sarge all programs can be replaced.

-- 
Changwoo Ryu
diff -ur dpkg-1.10.27/configure.in dpkg-1.10.27.ncursesw/configure.in
--- dpkg-1.10.27/configure.in   2005-02-11 00:25:43.000000000 +0900
+++ dpkg-1.10.27.ncursesw/configure.in  2005-03-03 11:28:39.489618280 +0900
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
 
 # check for the proper curses library. This can be either
 # -lcurses or -lncurses, we need to check for either one.
-AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses,initscr, CURSES_LIBS="-lncurses $CURSES_LIBS", 
AC_CHECK_LIB(curses,initscr, CURSES_LIBS="-lcurses $CURSES_LIBS"))
+AC_CHECK_LIB(ncursesw,initscr, CURSES_LIBS="-lncursesw $CURSES_LIBS", 
AC_CHECK_LIB(curses,initscr, CURSES_LIBS="-lcursesw $CURSES_LIBS"))
 if test "x$CURSES_LIBS" = "x"; then
  AC_MSG_WARN(no curses library found)
 fi
Only in dpkg-1.10.27.ncursesw: configure.in.orig
Only in dpkg-1.10.27.ncursesw: configure.in.rej
diff -ur dpkg-1.10.27/debian/changelog dpkg-1.10.27.ncursesw/debian/changelog
--- dpkg-1.10.27/debian/changelog       2005-02-11 00:24:17.000000000 +0900
+++ dpkg-1.10.27.ncursesw/debian/changelog      2005-03-03 11:30:41.501069720 
+0900
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+dpkg (1.10.27.ncursesw) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Use ncursesw instead of ncurses.
+
+ -- Changwoo Ryu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Thu,  3 Mar 2005 11:30:19 +0900
+
 dpkg (1.10.27) unstable; urgency=low
 
   The "Grab your gun and bring in the cat" Release.
Only in dpkg-1.10.27.ncursesw/debian: changelog.orig
Only in dpkg-1.10.27.ncursesw/debian: changelog.rej
Only in dpkg-1.10.27.ncursesw/debian: changelog~
diff -ur dpkg-1.10.27/dselect/Makefile.in 
dpkg-1.10.27.ncursesw/dselect/Makefile.in
--- dpkg-1.10.27/dselect/Makefile.in    2005-02-11 00:24:17.000000000 +0900
+++ dpkg-1.10.27.ncursesw/dselect/Makefile.in   2005-03-03 11:28:39.597601864 
+0900
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 curkeys.o: curkeys.h
 
 curkeys.h: keyoverride $(srcdir)/mkcurkeys.pl
-       cursesfile=`echo '#include <curses.h>' | \
+       cursesfile=`echo '#include <ncursesw/curses.h>' | \
                 $(CC) -E - | grep 'curses.h' | head -n 1 | \
                 $(SED) -e 's/^[^"]*"//; s/".*$$//'`; \
        if [ "$$cursesfile" = "" ]; then echo "can't find curses file"; exit 1; 
fi; \
diff -ur dpkg-1.10.27/dselect/dselect.h dpkg-1.10.27.ncursesw/dselect/dselect.h
--- dpkg-1.10.27/dselect/dselect.h      2005-02-11 00:24:17.000000000 +0900
+++ dpkg-1.10.27.ncursesw/dselect/dselect.h     2005-03-03 11:28:39.605600648 
+0900
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 #include <signal.h>
 #undef ERR
-#include <curses.h>
+#include <ncursesw/curses.h>
 
 struct helpmenuentry {
   char key;
diff -ur dpkg-1.10.27/dselect/main.cc dpkg-1.10.27.ncursesw/dselect/main.cc
--- dpkg-1.10.27/dselect/main.cc        2005-02-11 00:24:17.000000000 +0900
+++ dpkg-1.10.27.ncursesw/dselect/main.cc       2005-03-03 11:28:39.613599432 
+0900
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@
 #include <ctype.h>
 #include <assert.h>
 
-#include <term.h>
+#include <wchar.h>
+#include <ncursesw/term.h>
 
 extern "C" {
 #include <dpkg.h>

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