On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, Craig Small wrote:
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 09:09:54PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
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 .
I assume that the functions required in libtermcap are provided by
libtinfo. It's how I believe it is but I'm not 100% sure on what sits
where. If that is the case, it makes sense to link it to libtinfo.
libncurses5 unnecessarily. OTOH, there may be cases where packages
inadvertently use -ltermcap where they really need (n)curses
Assuming the above is correct, they're linking to the wrong thing so it
should break.
I also noticed there are no header files for libtinfo-dev which doesn't
appear correct to me. Surely there are some functions in libtinfo that
you could use and they need headers to reference them? The ncurses
headers appear in libncurses5-dev package, but there might be cases
where that isn't installed.
In that case, it would be necessary to make libncurses5-dev depend on
tinfo-dev (otherwise the headers would be duplicated).
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