Bug#848166: grub: Build-Depends on lib32ncurses5 which is going away

[Sven Joachim]

Control: retitle -1 grub: Build-Depends on lib32ncurses5-dev which is going away

On 2016-12-14 20:53 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:

> Source: grub
> Version: 0.97-72
> Tags: buster sid
> Control: block 848163 by -1
>
> I intend to remove the ncurses multilib packages after the stretch
> release, see #848163.  I'm not quite sure how long you want to keep the
> grub-legacy package alive, but this means that you will at least have to
> build /usr/sbin/grub without ncurses support on amd64.
>
> Simply dropping lib32ncurses5 from Build-Depends would be sufficient,

Sorry, I meant lib32ncurses5-dev here of course.

> and I guess most users never run the grub shell interactively from the
> running system anyway, but maybe it would also be good to have a
> NEWS.Debian mentioning how to install the i386 version of grub-legacy
> via multiarch if a full-fledged grub shell is desired for some reason.

Ping?  There is an ncurses library transition in the works (#230990),
and I would very much like to get rid of the multilib packages there.

Cheers,
       Sven