On 2023-01-29 20:12 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Package: libncurses-dev
> Version: 6.4-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> For the transition from libncurses5 to libncurses6, I made this change:
>
> ,----
> | ncurses (6.1+20180210-2) unstable; urgency=medium
> |
> | * Temporarily add ncurses{w,}5-config compatibility symlinks.
> |
> | -- Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:07:30 +0200
> `----
>
> This certainly made sense at the time to prevent avoidable FTBFS
> problems during the transition, but I really should have removed these
> "temporary" compatibility symlinks after the Buster release. By now
> everybody should have switched to ncurses{w,}6-config or to pkg-config,
> but it seems there are still a few stragglers.
Three of my own bug reports from six years ago are still unfixed:
#850735, #851238 and #851594. None of the affected packages has seen a
maintainer upload since then, and autoremoval from testing does not seem
to be the worst idea if nobody steps up to salvage them.
There are quite a few other hits on codesearch.debian.net, but
apparently the other packages look all for ncurses{w,}6-config in
addition to ncurses{w,}5-config, or they use pkg-config.
