Bug 63131

Summary:	cyrus-imap-admin should not depend on libtermcap-compat
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sven <sven.koehler>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sven 2004-09-07 08:11:35 UTC

hi,

i just did an "emerge -C libtermcap-compat" and "emerge --nodeps cyrus-imap-admin" and it compiled and works without problems, so why does cyrus-imap-admin still depend on libtermcap-compat?

I think the dependency should/can be removed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Tuan Van (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-07 16:45:22 UTC

what version of cyrus-imap-admin? 2.2.* doesn't depend on libtermcap-compat.

Comment 2 Sven 2004-09-07 16:50:34 UTC

i used cyrus-imap-admin 2.1.14, and seems to work well without termcap too.

Comment 3 Sven 2004-09-23 06:28:50 UTC

I did a grep -r in the cyrus-imapd-2.1.14 source-tree, and termcap seems to appear nowhere, except one place:

cyrus-imapd-2.1.14 # grep -r termcap .
./cmulocal/telnet.m4:],  TCLIB="-ltermcap")

So is termcap actually used? Since "emerge --nodeps cyrus-imap-admin" work without having any termcap-library installed, i guess yes.
Even if cyrus would depend on termcap, i guess it could be fixed by simply replacing "-ltermcap" by "-lncurses", or why would ncurses install a termcap.h?

Please remove the dependency on termcap, since it really isn't needed. Installing libtermcap-compat also causes many applications to link against termcap instead of ncurses - even if they support both. So termcap should really be eliminated.

Comment 4 Tuan Van (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-20 14:19:11 UTC

bug #64212 got more info on this issue. I'll mark this bug as duplicate of the other bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64212 ***