Bug#326598: [cl-debian] Bug#326598: cmucl-source: suggests libc5-dependent package

[Roger Leigh]

Martin Rydstr|m <rydis at cd.chalmers.se> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 11:08:36AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
>> Package: cmucl-source
>> Severity: normal
>> 
>> cmucl-source suggests termcap-compat.  This is a libc5 compatibility
>> package which should not have been used by contemporary packages for
>> at least 6 years.
>> 
>> Please could you remove the termcap-compat suggestion completely.
>
> I'm fairly certain that Hemlock in terminal mode requires some sort
> of termcap compatibility. I don't know whether this is supplied by
> something else these days, but very few people seem to use Hemlock,
> so I thought I'd just mention it, in case Hemlock-in-terminal does
> not work without it, and people wonder what it's for.

Nowadays everything should use terminfo.  termcap-compat is not
intended for use with current Debian packages; it exists only for
libc5 applications, typically proprietary binary-only programs which
can't be rebuilt.  cmucl-source doesn't fall into this category, and
is naturally only dependent on libc6-based packages.

It's also due to be removed shortly, which is why I filed this bug
(it's the only package in Debian which references it).  See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323139 for more
information.


Regards,
Roger

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