Description ----------- The Powers That Be (most importantly, the linux libraries maintainers) have decided to drop both termcap and curses support (they are not present in the newer ELF libc's for example). Both of these libraries are replaced by ncurses, which AFAIK uses the same interface.
Links ----- http://sable.ox.ac.uk/~jo95004/elf.html The ELF web page. Includes H.J. Lu's statement about dropping support. http://www.ccil.org/~esr/ncurses.html (Eric S. Raymond's ncurses page; Eric is a co-maintainer of ncurses). Required action --------------- The move to ncurses involves changes source packages to use ncurses per default, and fall back to curses or termcap when ncurses is not available. This is probably best done in coordination with the upstream maintainer(s). Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
