On 2011-10-05 22:29 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> Package: libtinfo-dev
>> Version: 5.9-2
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Currently libncurses5-dev provides symlinks
>> libtermcap.so -> libncurses.so and libtermcap.a -> libncurses.a .
>>
>> I wonder whether it would be a good idea to instead provide symlinks in
>> libtinfo-dev, i.e.
>> libtermcap.so -> libtinfo.so and libtermcap.a -> libtinfo.a .
>>
>> This would probably fix a few FTBFS bugs like #644423 and also have the
>> benefit that programs using -ltermcap don't get linked against
>> libncurses5 unnecessarily. OTOH, there may be cases where packages
>> inadvertently use -ltermcap where they really need (n)curses
>> functionality, possibly introducing new FTBFS bugs.
>
> I would expect the latter to be less common (at least for programs that
> are reasonably portable).
Yes, and revealing breakage of the others (if any) is probably not such
a bad thing. So I'll probably make the change in the next few days,
unless there are objections.
Cheers,
Sven
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