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Hi Sven,

Sven Joachim wrote:
> >> I've seen that you added a Build-Conflicts with libncurses5-dev which is
> >> rather suboptimal, since it prevents building screen in anything but the
> >> most basic chroot.
> >
> > Which is completely fine for me. pbuilder is easy to setup and use.
> > And yes, it means that I have to do every build in pbuilder, too.
> > Doesn't hurt, though. Did it many times in the last hours.
> 
> I'm using pbuilder as well, but it's not so great when you need to
> inspect the build tree afterwards since pdebuild deletes the build
> chroot by default.

Granted. That needs an extra option (which I need seldom enough so
that I have to look it up everytime I need it) plus a manual cleanup
(or reboot) afterwards.

> > * If I conflict with libncurses5-dev and depend on libncursesw5-dev
> >   and both depend on the same package, that won't hurt. Actually, they
> >   already do: libtinfo-dev and libtinfo5.
> 
> Right, what I meant is that libncurses5-dev and libncursesw5-dev will
> also be _provided_ by the same package.

Ah, _now_ that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.

> > Shouldn't that last line moved with the other lines, too?
> 
> I don't think so, the AC_MSG_ERROR line is for the case where all of the
> attempts to find tgetent in libtinfo, libcurses, libtermcap etc. failed.

Ok, thanks for having looked at it.

                Regards, Axel
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