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Bug#2698: ytalk links against libtermcap rather than libncurses



Paul Menage writes:
>
>
> Package: ytalk
> Version: 3.0.2-1
>
> ytalk attempts to link against curses and termcap. The link stage is
> unable to find libtermcap, which is now only in the a.out tree.
> Presumably it ought to be linking against ncurses instead of curses and
> libtermcap.

I wouldn't really consider this a bug since ytalk is still only an a.out
package. When I upgrade it to ELF RSN it will of course use ncurses.

> (Also, it probably ought to be recompiled as ELF rather than a.out before
> the release of 1.1)

Andrew

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Andrew Howell		   		      howellaa@cs.curtin.edu.au
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