Hi, GNU nano's upstream author is soon removing slang support, because it's buggy and the only know user is nano-udeb.
I have patched the ncurses source to create a libncursesw6-udeb package and have tested building nano against it -- it results in a working nano binary in a d-i environment. Adding ncurses will only add a few kbs to the installer, as libtinfo is already included in the installer, and is mitigated by nano-udeb being now compiled with --without-included-regexp, which makes the binary substantially smaller. Furthermore, if cdebconf and whichever other slang users in d-i can be switched to ncurses, the result might be a net space gain after all, but I haven't looked at this so closely. See https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ncurses/-/merge_requests/3 in Salsa and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976275 in the BTS. Is there anything fundamentally wrong with this approach? Jordi -- Jordi Mallach <jo...@debian.org> Debian Project