Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream
On 2018-02-28 17:49 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Control: severity -1 important
> Control: tags -1 upstream
>
> On 2017-01-13 09:35 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> Source: angband
>> Version: 1:3.5.1-2.2
>> User: ncur...@packages.debian.org
>> Usertags: ncurses5-config
>>
>> The ncurses development packages are going to see a change after the
>> Stretch release, ncursesw5-config will be replaced by ncursesw6-config.
>> Your package disables the ncurses frontend if ncursesw5-config is not
>> present on the build system. From my pbuilder log:
>>
>> ,----
>> | checking for ncursesw5-config... no
>> | checking for ncurses - wide char support... no
>> | *** The ncursesw5-config script installed by ncursesw could not be found
>> | *** If ncursesw was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
>> | *** your path, or set the NCURSES_CONFIG environment variable to the
>> | *** full path to ncursesw5-config.
>> | [...]
>> | -- Frontends --
>> | - Curses No; missing libraries
>> `----
>
> This is still the case today and can be tested with the ncurses version
> in experimental. Alas, the broken configure check is still the same in
> angband 4.1.2. :-(
Apparently upstream finally fixed the problem one year ago in commit
0f29cc2cff9f("configure: use ncursesw6-config if available")[1].
In ncurses we currently still ship a compatibility ncursesw5-config
symlink, but it will go away after Bookworm[2].
Cheers,
Sven
1.
https://github.com/angband/angband/commit/0f29cc2cff9fc3e8261adda6dff25c523898ac07
2. https://bugs.debian.org/1029977
