Comment 31 for bug 11922

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> 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.

Some other conflicting changes have been merged in the mean time. I
reupdated the patch and I'm keeping a branch here:
http://git.debian.org/?p=users/hertzog/dpkg.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pu/bug237675-dselect-wide-char-support

Cheers,
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