Martin Rydstr|m <rydis@cd.chalmers.se> writes:
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 12:38:59PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
Martin Rydstr|m <rydis@cd.chalmers.se> writes:
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 11:08:36AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
Package: cmucl-source Severity: normal
cmucl-source suggests termcap-compat. This is a libc5 compatibility package which should not have been used by contemporary packages for at least 6 years.
Please could you remove the termcap-compat suggestion completely.
I'm fairly certain that Hemlock in terminal mode requires some sort of termcap compatibility. I don't know whether this is supplied by something else these days, but very few people seem to use Hemlock, so I thought I'd just mention it, in case Hemlock-in-terminal does not work without it, and people wonder what it's for.
Nowadays everything should use terminfo. termcap-compat is not intended for use with current Debian packages; it exists only for libc5 applications, typically proprietary binary-only programs which can't be rebuilt. cmucl-source doesn't fall into this category, and is naturally only dependent on libc6-based packages.
It parses /etc/termcap directly itself. It doesn't actually use any termcap library, AFAIK. I imagine there might be some way to hack around it by setting TERMCAP if terminfo/ncurses supplies any way to automatically generate it, that might be a possibility, in a wrapper script, if nothing else. If there is some other package that provides /etc/termcap, that'd work, of course.
The /etc/termcap in termcap-compat is well outdated. You can create one yourself using 'tic -C', from what I have read (ncurses-bin and ncurses-base). I tried this with 'misc/terminfo.src' from the ncurses source package, and it appeared to work correctly. However, termcap has been deprecated in Debian for many years now, being replaced by terminfo. I would highly recommend switching to terminfo; this is the last remaining package which does not support at least terminfo, or both terminfo and termcap. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail.