erroneous reference to "ncurses-dev" package on ubuntu wiki page?

[Sean McNamara]

On 07/07/2010 06:30 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>    here:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/GitKernelBuild
>
>    the reader is told to install (among other things) the package
> "ncurses-dev".  assuming that's to allow the user to eventually run
> "make menuconfig", that's not the package name anymore in lucid, is
> it?
>
>    wouldn't it be libncurses5-dev?  or something similar?  i can fix
> that if someone wants to verify what the correct package name should
> be.
>
> rday
>
>    

Looks like it's a virtual package in Lucid. Is it removed entirely in 
Maverick?

$aptitude show ncurses-dev
No current or candidate version found for ncurses-dev
Package: ncurses-dev
State: not a real package
Provided by: libncurses5-dev

# aptitude install ncurses-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Note: selecting "libncurses5-dev" instead of the
       virtual package "ncurses-dev"
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   libncurses5-dev
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 203 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,598kB of archives. After unpacking 6,984kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main libncurses5-dev 
5.7+20090803-2ubuntu3 [1,598kB]
Fetched 1,598kB in 2s (567kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package libncurses5-dev.
(Reading database ... 151322 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libncurses5-dev (from 
.../libncurses5-dev_5.7+20090803-2ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libncurses5-dev (5.7+20090803-2ubuntu3) ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done