So at the moment we have a small patch to get ncurses's c++ binding to compile under 3.1. The problem is ncurses also uses a deprecated string stream class.
It was suggested that maybe we could simply not build the c++ interface because technically it is not required by the LSB. I think this would be wrong and will lead to applications failing to work. For the record it is possible via the --without-cxx-binding option. Tom Dickey's most recent uploads are from this time last year. I do not know if some gently pressure will help here.
