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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Peter Samuelson wrote:

>
> [Thomas Dickey]
> > possibly - but it doesn't solve the other issue (Debian #110586),
> > which is that some people want gpm from ncurses, but no one seems to
> > want to package it that way (since it's a standard package, etc).
>
> Yeah, I hadn't thought of that.  You can't have ncurses depend on
> libgpm without promoting it to essential, etc.
>
> Earlier, you mentioned getting misdirected bug reports because people
> saw libncurses in 'ldd' for apps that only use -lgpm.  Is this enough
> of an annoyance, do you think, for me to go ahead and do the weak
> symbol thing which stops libgpm from (explicitly) linking to
> libncurses?

Not if you have to change the packages which supposedly depend upon it.
That sounds like a lot of trouble.

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