On 2023-01-08 14:27 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Package: ncurses-base > Version: 6.4-1 > Severity: wishlist > > With late mount of /usr not being supported since Debian 9[1] and a > merged /usr layout likely to become mandatory after Debian 12, it does > not really make sense to have the terminfo files in ncurses-base in a > different directory than the ones from ncurses-term. After the Bookworm > release we should move them from /lib/terminfo to /usr/share/terminfo as > most other distributions have already done. > > Searching for "lib/terminfo" on codesearch.debian.net gives hits for > some 60 packages that need to be investigated for possible breakage in > code that expects terminfo files in a specific place.
Did a research this afternoon and found two problems: #1028231, an autopkgtest in unibilium that will stop doing anything useful (but still succeed IIUC, so not a blocker), and #1028234, an initramfs hook script in cryptsetup-initramfs that will fail. Which is a blocker, since it affects nearly 7% of all installations according to popcon. Both bugs should be fairly simple to fix.
