On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 08:55:04PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 11:15:04AM -0500, Steven Robbins wrote:
> > Hello Thomas!
> > 
> > Thanks for chiming in on this issue.  I had sent a follow-up at about the 
> > same 
> > time you did with a few details on the history as I could reconstruct it.
> > See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1067771#18
> > 
> > In summary: I believe you changed the default location from <cdk/cdk.h> to 
> > <cdk.h> in 2012, adding a configure option at the same time.  When this 
> > version 
> > was uploaded to Debian (much later), a debian-specific patch was added to 
> > retain the original location.  Four years ago, the previous debian 
> > maintainer 
> > removed that patch - but was never uploaded to debian unstable.  I took 
> > over 
> > maintenance a month ago and inadvertently uploaded to unstable a version 
> > where 
> > the header change from 2012 was exposed for the first time.
> 
> ...yes - I didn't record a reason for the change, so likely what prompted it
> was noting that cdk.h includes all of the other files, which makes it
> inconsistent to put it in the same subdirectory as the others.  fwiw, I do the
> same for dialog.
> 
> Just in case someone disagreed, I made it configurable.

I suppose that I _could_ have made a symlink in /usr/include/cdk,
to address both old/new locations.  You might consider that for
the package...

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Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net>
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