On 2013-03-10 08:18 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Source: ncurses > Severity: wishlist > > The latest upstream patchlevel (20130309) adds the configure option > "--with-cxx-shared" to permit building libncurses++ as a shared library. > > Using this option would require to either add yet more five packages to > debian/control if we choose to package the library in its own package, > or increase the size of the base system if we add it to the > libncurses5/libncursesw5 packages (libncurses++.so.5.9 is ~100 Kilobyte > stripped on i386). > > Also, it is not entirely clear to me whether we should use a symbols > file for libncurses++, since symbols files for C++ are notoriously > difficult to maintain and may differ across architectures.
I have not _completely_ forgotten about this, but every time I checked on codesearch.net (grepping for "ncurses\+\+"), I did not find any packages that would make use of ncurses' C++ bindings. Unless that situation changes, the pain of maintaining shared libncurses++ libraries is probably not worth it.
