Re: Bug#129869: libncurses5-dev missing in www.debian.org

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

retitle 129869 libncurses5-dev is missing in www.debian.org
reassign 129869 www.debian.org
severity 129869 normal
thanks

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Chris Harrelson wrote:

> Package: pine4-src
> Version: 1
> Severity: important
>
> When compiling, whenever gcc is passed the -lncurses flag, the linker
> is unable to find the library, since the libncurses5-dev package is not
> installed.  Once I installed the package, all went well.  The dependency
> needs to be added.

This was intentional, because you might want to export it via NFS and
compile it in another machine. Unlikely, but possible. In either case
pine4-src does not exist anymore in woody.

For woody please install pine-tracker and read
/usr/share/doc/pine-tracker/README.

You need libncurses5-dev, libldap2-dev and libssl-dev, as stated in
the Build-Depends field in the debian/control file. This is the
standard way for Debian source packages to specify build-dependencies.

> There is also no record of a libncurses5-dev package when I search on
> www.debian.org.

This should be a problem in the www.debian.org package, which I do not control.
I'm reassigning the bug.

Thanks.