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

[Loïc Minier]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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.

 ncurses-dev isn't too bad; libncurses5-dev is the real package used in
 practice right now, but it Provides: ncurses-dev so that "apt-get
 install ncurses-dev" should do the right thing whatever the real name
 of the package.

 There are 170 packages build-depending on libncurses-dev, 878 on
 libncurses5-dev and 180 on ncurses-dev, so libncurses5-dev is quite
 hardcoded in Ubuntu packages anyway, and I don't think the curses API
 is expected to change soon, so either choice is fine really.

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Loïc Minier