Bug#986578: nethack-console: ncurses not enabled in build

[Tobias Frost]

Package: nethack-console
Version: 3.6.6-2
Severity: normal

It seems so that the build does not properly enable ncurses:

export NETHACKOPTIONS=windowtype:curses
tobi at isildor:/usr/lib/games/nethack$ nethack


 * Window type curses not recognized.  Choices are:  tty, X11.

1 error in NETHACKOPTIONS.


I tried tinkering with d/rules but did not get it to compile with
curses…

While tinkering I saw that the debian rules uses the "old" build
system (as in $SRCDIR/sys/unix/Install.unx), I couldn't get it to work
with that one.
I could get it working with ncurses using the "new one" as in
($SRCDIR/sys/unix/NewInstall.unx), though… Possibly it would be good to invest
some time in upgrading the packaging to that one…


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages nethack-console depends on:
ii  libc6           2.31-11
ii  libncurses6     6.2+20201114-2
ii  libtinfo6       6.2+20201114-2
ii  nethack-common  3.6.6-2

nethack-console recommends no packages.

nethack-console suggests no packages.

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