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Bug#1918: ncurses-runtime replaces tput's



> Package: ncurses-runtime
> Version: 1.9.7a
>
> Installation of ncurses-runtime gave me a new 'reset' in /usr/bin by hard
> linking it to /usr/bin/tset from the same package.
>
> Unfortunately, this overwrote the /usr/bin/reset script I had from the
> base/tput package. I can't remember whether I asked dpkg to --force-depends
> or not.

Who is the new maintainer of the tput package?  Ian Murdock used to
but he may have given it away.  It would seem that ncurses should
obsolete the tput package since it now contains clear, reset and tput.

David
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