Debian bug report logs - #1341 ncurses man pages confusing regarding #include files Package: ncurses ; Reported by: Bill Mitchell ; 52 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From mdd.comm.mot.com!mitchell Sat Sep 9 11:30:00 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0srUfA-0002DBC; Sat, 9 Sep 95 11:30 PDT Received: from motgate.mot.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA17635 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sat, 9 Sep 1995 11:29:46 -0700 Received: from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com (8.6.11/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with ESMTP id NAA26015 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 13:29:57 -0500 Received: from mdd.comm.mot.com (mdisea.mdd.comm.mot.com [138.242.64.201]) by pobox.mot.com (8.6.11/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with SMTP id NAA03010 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 13:29:56 -0500 Received: from bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com by mdd.comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19906; Sat, 9 Sep 95 11:29:54 PDT Received: by bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14548; Sat, 9 Sep 95 11:29:53 PDT Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 11:29:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Mitchell X-Sender: mitchell@bb29c To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Subject: ncurses man pages confusing regarding #include files In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII PACKAGE: ncurses VERSION: 1.9.3 It seems that include files mentioned on ncurses man pages e.g. #include need to be included as e.g. #include . I gather that this is to allow both curses (from libc) and ncurses to be installed alongside one another. It seems that this will break some (perhaps all) source packages (and debian-user-written sources as well) which use ncurses in 0.93r{5|6} once ncurses replaces curses after the move to elf. If there's a good workaround which will prevent this breakage, it needs to be made very visible to both debian package and debian-user developers. If the breakage is unavoidable, this needs to be made similarly visible. Or am I missing something which should be obvious to me? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Bill Mitchell : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1341 ; Package ncurses . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov