tracker bug to get libtermcap-compat out of portage package maintainers, please fix up your packages (listed below) to remove libtermcap usage app-admin/apachetop: web-apps app-editors/gvim: vim app-editors/vim-core: vim app-editors/vim: vim app-editors/zile: emacs app-misc/aldo: no one app-office/mdbtools: no one dev-db/libodbc++: robbat2 dev-util/mono-debugger: dotnet dev-util/fenris: liquidx mail-client/hap: net-mail net-p2p/hx: net-p2p / kang sci-chemistry/nrmrpipe: ribosome sci-electronics/magic: sci sci-mathematics/octave-forge: sci
What's the replacement, or workaround?
I've just removed mono-debugger from the tree. This package has been p.masked for a while, and was pending removal anyway. Removing dotnet CC.
Another question: Why do you want to remove this package? I suppose fixing all packages not to depend on it would require quite some work, so I assume there is a compelling reason to remove libtermcap from the tree. Anyway, NMRPipe is distributed only in binary form, so there is no way it will get fixed, and I certainly will not remove it from the tree or cripple it.
the replacement is to use ncurses the current libtermcap-compat package installs the runtime library (libtermcap.so.2) but it will not allow you to build/link against it since it does install the header files or libtermcap.so i'll worry about binary-only packages later ... for now, fix the source packages
mail-client/hap-3.7-r1 is in CVS (~arched) and it doesn't depend upon libtermcap-compat anymore. Cheers, Ferdy
sci-electronics/magic done (-r5 in ~arch)
vim-6.3.086 no longer offers termcap as an option.
"sci-mathematics/octave-forge" fixed (in ~arch). Work done for the sci herd.
NMRPipe will not work with ncurses. However, the binary package bundles its own libtermcap-compat library, which the ebuild deletes in favor of the Gentoo one. I could use that bundled library if you absolutely want to get rid of "sys-libs/libtermcap-compat".
i know NMRPipe wont work with ncurses since it's a binary-only package if we can get all of our source packages moved over to ncurses, then i'd be ok with libtermcap-compat just installing the file needed for apps to run (namely, libtermcap.so.#)
apachetop seems to be all set
>=net-p2p/hx-0.4.11 is fixed (~arch)
libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2 should be masked because it doesn't emerge: mv: cannot move `lib' to a subdirectory of itself, `lib/lib' !!! ERROR: sys-libs/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_install ebuild.sh, line 1020: Called src_install libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2.ebuild, line 59: Called die !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
(1) that isnt how masking works (2) your report is unrelated to this one; you should have filed a new bug report (3) ive fixed the issue in cvs
robbat2, can you take a look at the following proposed libodbc++ update and see if you approve
Created attachment 98408 [details] update libodbc++ to build against ncurses I suggest a rev bump here because I think isql++ was unintentionally disabled by configure if the system's readline needed ncurses instead of termcap
libodbc++ fixed now. amd64 needs to stablize 0.2.3-r2 to enable this removal to continue.
@net-mail: ok to stabilize mail-client/hap-3.7-r1 now?
app-editors/zile does not depend on libtermcap-compat anymore
mysql-gui-tools-5.0_p10-r1.ebuild should also be fixed, because it tries to link libtermcap in the following Makefile: archive mysql-gui-tools-5.0r10.tar.gz: mysql-gui-common/tools/grtsh/Makefile.am
What's left? dev-util/fenris-0.07m-r2 (no maintainer ATM, doesn't compile anyway - Bug 46620) mail-client/hap-3.7 (-r1 stabilization - Bug 173771) sci-chemistry/nmrpipe-2.5.2006.184.15.37 sci-mathematics/octave-forge-2004.11.16-r1 sci-mathematics/octave-forge-2005.06.13 sci-mathematics/octave-forge-2006.01.28 sci-mathematics/octave-forge-2006.03.17
I've just fixed all of sci-mathematics/octave-forge* Best, Markus
the state of the tree is now that we can move on -- libtermcap-compat only provides the SONAME library needed for binary packages
