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

[Martin Rydstr|m]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 12:38:59PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> 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 parses /etc/termcap directly itself. It doesn't actually use any
termcap library, AFAIK. I imagine there might be some way to hack
around it by setting TERMCAP if terminfo/ncurses supplies any way
to automatically generate it, that might be a possibility, in a
wrapper script, if nothing else. If there is some other package that
provides /etc/termcap, that'd work, of course.

> 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.

I see.

'mr

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