Bug#2445: unable to install ncurses-term

[Rob Leslie <rob@mars.org>]

Package: ncurses-term
Version: 1.9.8a-4

I'm unable to install this package with the other ncurses packages:

deimos:debian/unstable/binary:[13]# dpkg --list dpkg '*curse*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name         Version   Rev  Description
+++-============-=========-====-===============================================
ii  dpkg             1.1.0      Package maintenance system for Debian GNU/Linux
un  ncurses                     (no description available)
ii  ncurses-base    1.9.8a 4    Video terminal manipulation: Minimum set of ter
ii  ncurses-bin     1.9.8a 4    Video terminal manipulation: associated program
un  ncurses-dev                 (no description available)
pn  ncurses-deve                (no description available)
pn  ncurses-runt                (no description available)
pn  ncurses-term                (no description available)
un  ncurses21-de                (no description available)
ii  ncurses3.0      1.9.8a 4    Video terminal manipulation: shared libraries
ii  ncurses3.0-d    1.9.8a 4    Video terminal manipulation: Developer's librar

deimos:debian/unstable/binary:[14]# dpkg --install misc/ncurses-term-1.9.8a-4.deb
Selecting previously deselected package ncurses-term.
dpkg: regarding misc/ncurses-term-1.9.8a-4.deb containing ncurses-term:
 ncurses-term conflicts with ncurses-runtime
  ncurses-base provides ncurses-runtime and is installed.
dpkg: error processing misc/ncurses-term-1.9.8a-4.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing ncurses-term
Errors were encountered while processing:
 misc/ncurses-term-1.9.8a-4.deb

deimos:debian/unstable/binary:[313]% dpkg --info misc/ncurses-term-1.9.8a-4.deb
 old debian package, version 0.939000.
 size 171482 bytes: control archive= 315, main archive= 171154.
     246 bytes,     7 lines      control
 PACKAGE: ncurses-term
 DESCRIPTION: Video terminal manipulation: additional terminal files
 MAINTAINER: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>
 VERSION: 1.9.8a
 PACKAGE_REVISION: 4
 DEPENDS: ncurses-base
 CONFLICTS: ncurses, ncurses-runtime

According to Bruce Perens:

  OK - you've convinced me that you can't install all of the ncurses -4
  packages together - I think my old ncurses-base was the -3 revision,
  not the -4. This should probably be repaired by making ncurses-term not
  conflict with ncurses-runtime. Ncurses-term depends on ncurses-base,
  which both provides and conflicts with ncurses-runtime, so it doesn't
  really need that conflict.

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Robert Leslie
rob@mars.org