Debian Bug report logs - #859293
ncurses-doc: there should be a curses(3) page

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: ncurses-doc: there should be a curses(3) page

Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2017 14:20:26 -0400

Package: ncurses-doc
Version: 6.0+20161126-1
Severity: normal

/usr/share/man/man3/curses.3 should exist and be a symlink or possibly a
manpage .so directive to the real ncurses manpage.

Reasons:
1. ncurses is the de facto curses implementation on most systems these
days, and definitely on Debian systems;
2. ncurses(3)'s own synopsis section refers to it as curses(.h).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 859293-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>

To: 859293-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#859293 marked as pending

Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:27:22 +0000

tag 859293 pending
thanks

Hello,

Bug #859293 reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can
see the changelog below, and you can check the diff of the fix at:

    https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/ncurses.git/commit/?id=9d29045

---
commit 9d2904547bd7ea257e9021d03b5cf3586f004985
Author: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Date:   Tue Apr 11 20:07:05 2017 +0200

    Provide a curses(3) symlink to ncurses

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 83806ef..255c7af 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ ncurses (6.0+20170408-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * New upstream patchlevel.
     - Fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple
       screens (reports by Andres Martinelli, Closes: #783486).
+  * Provide a curses(3) symlink to ncurses (Closes: #859293).
   * Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when building the test programs, fixes an
     impending FTBFS when we switch to libncursesw6 from libncursesw5.
 

Message #15 received at 859293-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>

To: 859293-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#859293: fixed in ncurses 6.0+20170408-1

Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 10:49:30 +0000

Source: ncurses
Source-Version: 6.0+20170408-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ncurses, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 859293@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> (supplier of updated ncurses package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:21:10 +0200
Source: ncurses
Binary: libtinfo5 libtinfo5-udeb libncurses5 libtinfo-dev libtinfo5-dbg libncurses5-dev libncurses5-dbg libncursesw5 libncursesw5-dev libncursesw5-dbg lib64ncurses5 lib64ncurses5-dev lib32ncurses5 lib32ncurses5-dev lib32ncursesw5 lib32ncursesw5-dev lib64tinfo5 lib32tinfo5 lib32tinfo-dev ncurses-bin ncurses-base ncurses-term ncurses-examples ncurses-doc
Architecture: source
Version: 6.0+20170408-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
Changed-By: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Description:
 lib32ncurses5 - shared libraries for terminal handling (32-bit)
 lib32ncurses5-dev - developer's libraries for ncurses (32-bit)
 lib32ncursesw5 - shared libraries for terminal handling (wide character support) (
 lib32ncursesw5-dev - developer's libraries for ncursesw (32-bit)
 lib32tinfo-dev - developer's library for the low-level terminfo library (32-bit)
 lib32tinfo5 - shared low-level terminfo library for terminal handling (32-bit)
 lib64ncurses5 - shared libraries for terminal handling (64-bit)
 lib64ncurses5-dev - developer's libraries for ncurses (64-bit)
 lib64tinfo5 - shared low-level terminfo library for terminal handling (64-bit)
 libncurses5 - shared libraries for terminal handling
 libncurses5-dbg - debugging/profiling libraries for ncurses
 libncurses5-dev - developer's libraries for ncurses
 libncursesw5 - shared libraries for terminal handling (wide character support)
 libncursesw5-dbg - debugging/profiling libraries for ncursesw
 libncursesw5-dev - developer's libraries for ncursesw
 libtinfo-dev - developer's library for the low-level terminfo library
 libtinfo5  - shared low-level terminfo library for terminal handling
 libtinfo5-dbg - debugging/profiling library for the low-level terminfo library
 libtinfo5-udeb - shared low-level terminfo library for terminal handling - udeb (udeb)
 ncurses-base - basic terminal type definitions
 ncurses-bin - terminal-related programs and man pages
 ncurses-doc - developer's guide and documentation for ncurses
 ncurses-examples - test programs and examples for ncurses
 ncurses-term - additional terminal type definitions
Closes: 783486 859293
Changes:
 ncurses (6.0+20170408-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream patchlevel.
     - Fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple
       screens (reports by Andres Martinelli, Closes: #783486).
   * Provide a curses(3) symlink to ncurses (Closes: #859293).
   * Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when building the test programs, fixes an
     impending FTBFS when we switch to libncursesw6 from libncursesw5.
   * Update years in debian/copyright.
   * Change priority of libncurses5 to optional (see #852002).
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