Bug 836696

Summary:	sys-libs/ncurses: remove libcurses.so symlink
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	flow, gentoo
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PullRequest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/24882 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=837812
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	836155

Description Michał Górny archtester

2022-04-03 14:24:13 UTC

Let's remove the "libcurses.so" symlink from ncurses package.

Firstly, it shouldn't really be needed by anything.  I did a quick test and no packages failed after removing it but admittedly a full tinderbox run would be better.  Nevertheless, between ncurses-y header install directories and libtinfo use, I honestly doubt any real software using -lcurses is still going to work.

Secondly, this breaks CMake's detection of libtinfo.  Surely, this is CMake logic being odd and a whole lot of packages is working this around already but removing "libcurses.so" is an easy way to make everything work out of the box.

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2022-04-06 18:08:09 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1117e617c725e6d474628336fd5c2a6068d5eb76

commit 1117e617c725e6d474628336fd5c2a6068d5eb76
Author:     Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-04-06 18:07:58 +0000
Commit:     David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-04-06 18:07:58 +0000

    sys-libs/ncurses: Remove libcurses.so symlink
    
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/24882
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/836696
    Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
    Signed-off-by: David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>

 sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.3_p20211106-r1.ebuild | 357 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 357 insertions(+)