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Re: Question re: Bug#63348: ispell: Incorrect Dependancy



On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 01:34:33PM -0400, David Coe wrote:
> Hi mentors,
> 
> ispell needs libncurses4, but (as this bug report correctly
> explains) shouldn't depend on a non-"standard" package.
> 
> So I have two choices -- compile it with static libncurses4,
> or lobby to make libncurses4 part of debian "standard."
> 
> Has that been suggested before?  Opinions?  Thanks.

Install libncurses5-dev and recompile. That will fix it. Also to make sure
other ports handle this, add:

Build-Depends: libncurses5-dev

... to debian/control at the top.

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