Comment 30 for bug 11922

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005, Changwoo Ryu wrote:
> If the patch is too long to be accepted for now, how about starting
> with replacing libncurses5 with libncursesw5? Just replacing, without
> touching other things, is also useful.
>
> The only problem is that libncursesw5 is not in base... but
> after sarge all programs can be replaced.

This has been done some time ago when it really broke badly. For the
rest of your patch, I just forward-ported it to the current git tree,
the fix for #342495 was in conflict with your patch and had to be redone
given that you use libtextwrap. Apart from that and from some build-system
adjustement, the patch applied mostly fine.

I built an udpated dselect and it seems to work as expected.

I'm a bit uneasy however with adding a libtextwrap dependency on dpkg for
dpkg. Given that dselect can be completely disabled in the build system it
doesn't complicate the bootstrap process of a new architecture but still
it would be nice if someone could just fix the code to not require it at
all.

Please test and keep me informed! We can then merge the patch if it
doesn't have any other side-effects.

Cheers,
--
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