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has caused the Debian Bug report #115135,
regarding The -ltermcap interface is obsolete ... BUT ...
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Package: libncurses-dev
Version: current
Severity: wishlist
My opinion is NOT that this should be removed the termcap interface
still has an important role to play. But I think that it should NOT
be installed as a shared library only the "libtermcap.a -> libncurses.a"
link should exist.
Obviously for various reasons there are programs that cannot or will not
be converted to ncurses these need termcap in whatever form.
The issue is for things like debian bug 84931, where for good
reasons the maintainer (Michael Stone) doesn't want 'ls' to depend on
libncurses.so. But instead 'ls' is using a homebrew terminal definition
interface that is hardwired to ansi terminals.
If -ltermcap is only static then this can be used in simple cases (like
colourisation) with only a small impact on the executable size (22k for
everything) and no additional dependancies at run time.
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Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
<http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
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this was handled some years ago already, closing.
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