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

[Peter Samuelson]

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[Thomas Dickey]
> 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.

I am not sure whether I'm understanding this correctly.  You are saying
that the GPM curses wrapper function actually breaks ncurses?  Or,
breaks ncurses's own gpm integration, which apps would like to use but
can't in Debian?

If that's true, we'll disable it.

Peter

PS. The "spurious runtime dependency" is, IMHO, unimportant.
libncurses5 is already required by bash, so it's not like you
can run a Debian system with a missing or broken ncurses.

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