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On 2018-02-28, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2017-01-09 21:08 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> Source: the
>> Version: 3.3~rc1-3
>> User: ncur...@packages.debian.org
>> Usertags: ncurses5-config
>>
>> The ncurses development packages are going to see a change after the
>> Stretch release, ncurses5-config will be replaced by ncurses6-config.
>> Your package FTBFS if ncurses5-config is not present on the build
>> system.  From my pbuilder log:
>>
>> ,----
>> | checking for ncurses5-config... no
>> | checking for location of ncurses.h header file... found in /usr/include
>> | checking for location of ncurses library file... configure: error:
>> | Cannot find curses library file: ncurses; cannot configure
>> | debian/rules:23: recipe for target 'stamp-configure' failed
>> | make: *** [stamp-configure] Error 1
>> | dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
>> `----
>
> This still happens, now reproducible by installing libncurses-dev from
> experimental.

I was able to build it just now, and the reproducible-builds
infrastructure is able to build it (though not currently reproducibly)
as recently as August:

  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/history/amd64/the.html

What is needed to trigger this failure, or can this bug be closed?

live well,
  vagrant

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