[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#804579: logol-bin: bogus hardcoded dependency on libncursesw5

[Sven Joachim]

On 2015-11-09 20:01 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:

> Package: logol-bin
> Version: 1.7.2-2
> User: ncurses at packages.debian.org
> Usertags: hardcoded-dependency
>
> The package logol-bin has, apparently since its first upload to Debian,
> a hardcoded dependency on libncursesw5 for which I have been unable to
> find a justification.  The only reference to ncursesw is the string
> "-I/usr/include/ncursesw" in the files
> /usr/lib/logol/{logol,preanalyse}.exe.  I have no idea what these files
> do or if that could be a reason for a dependency on libncursesw5-dev,
> but the dependency on libncursesw5 seems to be just bogus.

BTW, in version 1.7.8-1+b1 even the string "-I/usr/include/ncursesw" is
no longer present, presumably because the ncursesw headers are installed
directly in /usr/include now[1].

Cheers,
       Sven


1. https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ncurses/commit/489db2971aeed8f4469bc60480a2f4383230310f