Bug#644426: libtinfo-dev: Provide libtermcap.{so,a} symlinks

2011-10-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-12 21:07 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-10-10 11:53 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote: The problem is that we have two versions of the headers, one in libncurses5-dev and one in libncursesw5-dev, and there does not seem to be a shareable subset suitable for libtinfo-dev. E.g.

Bug#644426: libtinfo-dev: Provide libtermcap.{so,a} symlinks

2011-10-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-10 11:53 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote: The problem is that we have two versions of the headers, one in libncurses5-dev and one in libncursesw5-dev, and there does not seem to be a shareable subset suitable for libtinfo-dev. E.g. /usr/include/term.h #includes ncurses_dll.h, and

Bug#644426: libtinfo-dev: Provide libtermcap.{so,a} symlinks

2011-10-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, Craig Small wrote: On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 09:09:54PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: I wonder whether it would be a good idea to instead provide symlinks in libtinfo-dev, i.e. libtermcap.so - libtinfo.so and libtermcap.a - libtinfo.a . I assume that the functions required in

Bug#644426: libtinfo-dev: Provide libtermcap.{so,a} symlinks

2011-10-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:06:43 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: In that case, it would be necessary to make libncurses5-dev depend on tinfo-dev (otherwise the headers would be duplicated). That seems to be the case already: $ apt-cache --no-all-versions show libncurses5-dev | grep Depends Depends:

Bug#644426: libtinfo-dev: Provide libtermcap.{so,a} symlinks

2011-10-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-10 02:55 +0200, Craig Small wrote: On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 09:09:54PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: I wonder whether it would be a good idea to instead provide symlinks in libtinfo-dev, i.e. libtermcap.so - libtinfo.so and libtermcap.a - libtinfo.a . I assume that the functions

Bug#644426: libtinfo-dev: Provide libtermcap.{so,a} symlinks

2011-10-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-10-10 02:55 +0200, Craig Small wrote: On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 09:09:54PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: I wonder whether it would be a good idea to instead provide symlinks in libtinfo-dev, i.e. libtermcap.so - libtinfo.so and libtermcap.a -

Bug#644426: libtinfo-dev: Provide libtermcap.{so,a} symlinks

2011-10-09 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 09:09:54PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: I wonder whether it would be a good idea to instead provide symlinks in libtinfo-dev, i.e. libtermcap.so - libtinfo.so and libtermcap.a - libtinfo.a . I assume that the functions required in libtermcap are provided by libtinfo. It's

Bug#644426: libtinfo-dev: Provide libtermcap.{so,a} symlinks

2011-10-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-05 22:29 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Sven Joachim wrote: Package: libtinfo-dev Version: 5.9-2 Severity: wishlist Currently libncurses5-dev provides symlinks libtermcap.so - libncurses.so and libtermcap.a - libncurses.a . I wonder whether it would be a good

Bug#644426: libtinfo-dev: Provide libtermcap.{so,a} symlinks

2011-10-05 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: libtinfo-dev Version: 5.9-2 Severity: wishlist Currently libncurses5-dev provides symlinks libtermcap.so - libncurses.so and libtermcap.a - libncurses.a . I wonder whether it would be a good idea to instead provide symlinks in libtinfo-dev, i.e. libtermcap.so - libtinfo.so and

Bug#644426: libtinfo-dev: Provide libtermcap.{so,a} symlinks

2011-10-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Sven Joachim wrote: Package: libtinfo-dev Version: 5.9-2 Severity: wishlist Currently libncurses5-dev provides symlinks libtermcap.so - libncurses.so and libtermcap.a - libncurses.a . I wonder whether it would be a good idea to instead provide symlinks in libtinfo-dev,