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

[Roger Leigh]

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

[termcap-compat removal]
> No matter; I'm fairly certain I can live with fixing up stuff so I
> can still use it. I think it's not a great solution to remove a
> feature just because people don't want /etc/termcap around, but I
> guess that is the way it works.

I think the long-term solution should be to add terminfo support.
Termcap is long deprecated in favour of terminfo, and there hasn't
ever been termcap support for libc6 in Debian as far as I know.  This
dependency is just a hangover from the libc5 era.  Debian deprecated
termcap in 1999.

According to Peter Samuelson, converting to terminfo should be as
simple as linking with -lncurses rather than -ltermcap.  However, if
you aren't using libtermcap directly, this might be a harder task.


Regards,
Roger

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