Martin Rydstr|m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 11:08:36AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Package: cmucl-source >> Severity: normal >> >> cmucl-source suggests termcap-compat. This is a libc5 compatibility >> package which should not have been used by contemporary packages for >> at least 6 years. >> >> Please could you remove the termcap-compat suggestion completely. > > I'm fairly certain that Hemlock in terminal mode requires some sort > of termcap compatibility. I don't know whether this is supplied by > something else these days, but very few people seem to use Hemlock, > so I thought I'd just mention it, in case Hemlock-in-terminal does > not work without it, and people wonder what it's for.
Nowadays everything should use terminfo. termcap-compat is not intended for use with current Debian packages; it exists only for libc5 applications, typically proprietary binary-only programs which can't be rebuilt. cmucl-source doesn't fall into this category, and is naturally only dependent on libc6-based packages. It's also due to be removed shortly, which is why I filed this bug (it's the only package in Debian which references it). See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323139 for more information. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
