Control: severity -1 serious
On 2017-01-09 21:08 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Source: the
> Version: 3.3~rc1-3
> User: ncur...@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: ncurses5-config
>
> The ncurses development packages are going to see a change after the
> Stretch release, ncurses5-config will be replaced by ncurses6-config.
> Your package FTBFS if ncurses5-config is not present on the build
> system. From my pbuilder log:
>
> ,----
> | checking for ncurses5-config... no
> | checking for location of ncurses.h header file... found in /usr/include
> | checking for location of ncurses library file... configure: error:
> | Cannot find curses library file: ncurses; cannot configure
> | debian/rules:23: recipe for target 'stamp-configure' failed
> | make: *** [stamp-configure] Error 1
> | dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
> `----
The ncurses5-config compatibility symlink has finally been removed in
libncurses-dev 6.4+20230625-1, and the FTBFS in unstable now.
Cheers,
Sven
