Bug#898045: nvidia-cuda-gdb: depends on libncurses5

[Sven Joachim]

On 2018-05-06 12:16 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> Package: nvidia-cuda-gdb
> Version: 9.1.85-4+b1
> Severity: normal
>
> Even after being rebuilt for the libncurses6 transition[1],
> nvidia-cuda-gdb depends on libncurses5.  Clearly there's not much you
> can do about that, other than prodding Nvidia to release a version of it
> linked against libncurses.so.6, if they haven't done so already.

Actually, Nvidia ships the sources (as required by the GDB license) for
nvidia-cuda-gdb under [1], and there is also a git repository[2].

Could the nvidia-cuda-gdb package be built from these sources instead of
shipping it pre-compiled from nvidia-cuda-toolkit?

Cheers,
       Sven


1. https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/opensource/
2. https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-gdb