On 08/06/2018 10:00 PM, MIKE MAJOR via devel wrote: > This evening I was reading through the Clockmaker script closer. I > noticed that the prerequisite ncurses-dev is not a real debian package. > I've read ahead in the HOWTO text and I see that later the package > ncurses5-dev is asked to be installed.
Based on my testing (which notably was not on Raspbian), I expect that ncurses-dev or libncurses-dev would result in the installation of libncurses5-dev, but that ncurses5-dev will fail. That said, maybe ncurses5-dev does work too. As to which to use... It seems to me that it's advantageous to _not_ hard-code the version number whenever possible, as that makes the HOWTO resilient across upgrades. That would argue for ncurses-dev or libncurses-dev. On the other hand, plenty of things will change across distro upgrades, so it likely doesn't matter that much. -- Richard _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
