On 2015-06-02 10:47 +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Hello Sven Joachim.
>
> Thanks for your quick and very useful reply.
>
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 09:10:17PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2015-06-01 18:55 +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> [...]
>> > Since util-linux builds tools used by the debian installer and thus
>> > provides udebs, all dependencies will also need to provide udebs.
>>
>> AFAIK the only affected program would be cfdisk, or is there any other
>> program in util-linux which currently uses slang?
>
> Only cfdisk-udeb.
>
>> > Thus, please provide an udeb for libncursesw5 (and in turn libtinfo5).
>>
>> I'm not too keen on doing that. Have you asked on debian-boot about
>> their opinion? Last time the issue came up, just dropping cfdisk-udeb
>> was among the proposals[1].
>
> My attempts at poking the installer people have not resulted in
> any useful feedback. Given that we're now early in the cycle
> I'm willing to just go with something and wait for the installer
> people to scream if I broke something, and then fix it.
>
> Thanks for your historic reference, which I was not aware of.
> Maybe dropping cfdisk-udeb is an ok solution...
>
> [...]
>> _If_ we are to build udebs from ncurses, I gladly accept patches, but I
>> would like to avoid that if possible.
>
> Sounds like you're not totally opposed to it then. How about the following
> plan:
>
> I send a mail to debian-boot suggesting dropping cfdisk-udeb. If noone
> says anything I'll follow up with uploading such a package.
>
> If there are backlashes, we'll handle it by adding the udeb to ncursesw5
> and reenabling cfdisk-udeb (now built against ncursesw5).
>
> Does that sound ok to you?
Yes, I'm fine with that plan.
Cheers,
Sven
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