[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#804579: Ping

[Sven Joachim]

Control: tags -1 - wontfix
Control: severity -1 normal

On 2017-09-27 11:41 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> control: tags -1 wontfix
> control: severity -1 minor
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> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 09:59:25AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
>> the executable is created with swi-prolog (build-depends), I do not
>> manage any compilation args myself. So the ncurses dependency is
>> introduced by the compiler itself.
>> I cannot modify this, this bug certainly impacts the compiler itself
>> (swi-prolog) that adds extra hard coded dependencies.

Mind to explain what this is talking about?  Because I still do not see any
dependency on libncursesw5 here that the compiler is generating.

>> I have no idea about the reason of this link.
>
> I have tagged the bug what seems appropriate to me to make sure
> I do not always stumble upon this. :-)

We are in the middle of a transition to libncursesw6[1], so doing
nothing does not seem to be appropriate, if it ever was.

Cheers,
       Sven


1. https://bugs.debian.org/894049