[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#274673: libgpmg1: libgpm should not depend upon libncurses

[Thomas Dickey]

Package: libgpmg1
Version: 1.19.6-12.1
Severity: important

libgpm contains an optional function Gpm_Wgetch() which prevents using
ncurses' GPM support, adds spurious runtime dependencies for ncurses
from unrelated applications such as jed.  It does not appear to be used
by any Debian package (very few programs attempt to use it, and those
that do, make it optional or simply do not work properly).

See
http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#using_gpm

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-td1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages libgpmg1 depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand

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