On 01/03/13 09:36, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Historically it seems to be an accident, and the ncurses{w,5}-config
> scripts should have better been shipped in their development packages.
> But nowadays we want to make the development packages multiarch-aware,
> and since the scripts differ on architectures, moving them away from
> ncurses-bin would mean adding two additional binary packages just for
> these scripts.
> 
> See http://bugs.debian.org/480437 for a discussion on that topic.
> 

I just tested on an ubuntu installation what happens with the patches
applied; you simply end up with the warning the you need to install the
dev package. So I don't see any problem here.

> Well, at least until nconf does not make any effort to explicitly detect
> and use the wide API, trying ncurses5-config first should work.  If you
> build ncurses yourself with --enable-widec, there is no -lmenu or -lpanel
> anyway, these libraries are called menuw and panelw then.

You are right, we only should consider ncurses5-config right now.

Regards,
Justin