On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 12:38:59PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > 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 parses /etc/termcap directly itself. It doesn't actually use any termcap library, AFAIK. I imagine there might be some way to hack around it by setting TERMCAP if terminfo/ncurses supplies any way to automatically generate it, that might be a possibility, in a wrapper script, if nothing else. If there is some other package that provides /etc/termcap, that'd work, of course. > 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. I see. 'mr -- [Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. -- Neal Stephenson, _In the Beginning was the Command Line_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
