severity 480437 normal retitle 480437 ncurses5-config should be in libncurses5-dev thanks
On 2008-05-10 02:40 +0200, John Darrington wrote: > Package: ncurses-bin / libncurses5-dev > Version: 5.6+20080308-1 > Severity: important > > ncurses-bin ships the ncurses5-config binary. > > Running ncurses5-bin --cflags reports "-I/usr/include/ncurses" But > this is wrong. The package does not provide /usr/include/ncurses. > Even if libncurses5-dev is installed, then it puts the header files in > /usr/include NOT /usr/include/ncurses Consequently any build > configurations which rely on ncurses5-config will break. As Thomas Dickey had already pointed out, this has been fixed in the meantime, "ncurses5-config --cflags" only prints an empty line currently. > ncurses5-config should be shipped by libncurses5-dev and not > ncurses5-bin and it should give the correct information. I agree that ncurses5-config should be in libncurses5-dev. As long as it is in ncurses-bin, at least the output of "ncurses5-config --version" is not guaranteed to be correct. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-packages-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org