On Sat, 2020-09-19 at 09:33:25 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2020-09-18 19:29 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-09-18 at 18:26:34 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Quoting the ncurses NEWS file: > >> > >> ,---- > >> | 20200817 > >> | + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure > >> | option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink). > >> `---- > > > > Right, thanks for the confirmation, that's along the lines of what I > > had gathered from checking the header. Even though the problem here > > is that the macro is there, but just behind a conditional, I suppose > > that's still expected? > > No, that was not expected and an oversight which has been corrected in > the 20200918 ncurses patchlevel. At least one other package (zsh) is > affected.
Ah great then, thanks for handling this so quickly! > >> See the thread at > >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2020-08/threads.html#00017 > >> for a discussion that motivated this change. > > > > I'll check this later, but no matter what, I think it is still worth > > fixing the dpkg build system to handle this kind of case more robustly. > > I've prepared the attached patch which seems to work with gcc and clang, > > and I'll try to upload either later today or tomorrow. > > I agree that dpkg's parsing of curses.h needs improvement, but no need > to hurry with an upload, I will upgrade ncurses to the 20200918 > patchlevel this weekend. Ok, thanks, that gives more maneuvering room. Although I'll try to get one out too anyway, as it's been a while and there are regressions pending. :) Thanks, Guillem
