On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Sven Joachim wrote:
Package: libtinfo-dev
Version: 5.9-2
Severity: wishlist
Currently libncurses5-dev provides symlinks
libtermcap.so -> libncurses.so and libtermcap.a -> libncurses.a .
I wonder whether it would be a good idea to instead provide symlinks in
libtinfo-dev, i.e.
libtermcap.so -> libtinfo.so and libtermcap.a -> libtinfo.a .
This would probably fix a few FTBFS bugs like #644423 and also have the
benefit that programs using -ltermcap don't get linked against
libncurses5 unnecessarily. OTOH, there may be cases where packages
inadvertently use -ltermcap where they really need (n)curses
functionality, possibly introducing new FTBFS bugs.
I would expect the latter to be less common (at least for programs that
are reasonably portable).
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