Bug#480437: ncurses5-config reports incorrect information

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

severity 480437 normal
retitle 480437 ncurses5-config should be in libncurses5-dev
thanks

On 2008-05-10 02:40 +0200, John Darrington wrote:

> Package: ncurses-bin / libncurses5-dev
> Version: 5.6+20080308-1
> Severity: important
>
> ncurses-bin ships the ncurses5-config binary.
>
> Running ncurses5-bin --cflags reports "-I/usr/include/ncurses"  But
> this is wrong.  The package does not provide /usr/include/ncurses.
> Even if libncurses5-dev is installed, then it puts the header files in
> /usr/include NOT /usr/include/ncurses Consequently any build
> configurations which rely on ncurses5-config will break.

As Thomas Dickey had already pointed out, this has been fixed in the
meantime, "ncurses5-config --cflags" only prints an empty line
currently.

> ncurses5-config should be shipped by libncurses5-dev and not
> ncurses5-bin and it should give the correct information.

I agree that ncurses5-config should be in libncurses5-dev.  As long as
it is in ncurses-bin, at least the output of "ncurses5-config --version"
is not guaranteed to be correct.

Sven