On 2023-10-26 00:29 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 25.10.23 um 22:42 schrieb Alexander Koskovich:
>> Hello,
>> The removal of libncurses5 has led to not being able to compile the
>> Android Open Source Platform. There is a dependency on this package
>> in Clang prebuilts to compile the Renderscript library.
>
> removal from sid/trixie. bookworm continues to ship libncurses5.
>
>> https://groups.google.com/g/android-building/c/Sv_v2ApJZug
>> <https://groups.google.com/g/android-building/c/Sv_v2ApJZug>
>> While Google is planning on fixing this in the Android 14 quarterly
>> platform releases by adding a checked in prebuilt of ncurses5, this
>> does not address breakage in the present. Could this package please
>> be added back? We need it to compile Android 13.
>> Would be much appreciated.
>
> See
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1025964
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ncurses/-/commit/11d067455801fddf8c65eba6e447ef7aacd1d703
>
> Using bookworm/stable to build AOSP is not an option?
It is also possible to install the bookworm libncurses5/libtinfo5
packages on newer releases. There are no dependencies besides libc6,
after all.
Cheers,
Sven
