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Bug#1029977: libncurses-dev: drop ncurses{w,}5-config symlinks

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Package: libncurses-dev
Version: 6.4-2
Severity: wishlist

For the transition from libncurses5 to libncurses6, I made this change:

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| ncurses (6.1+20180210-2) unstable; urgency=medium
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|   * Temporarily add ncurses{w,}5-config compatibility symlinks.
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|  -- Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>  Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:07:30 +0200
`----

This certainly made sense at the time to prevent avoidable FTBFS
problems during the transition, but I really should have removed these
"temporary" compatibility symlinks after the Buster release.  By now
everybody should have switched to ncurses{w,}6-config or to pkg-config,
but it seems there are still a few stragglers.

Anyway, I intend to finally remove the ncurses{w,}5-config symlinks
after the Bookworm release.  AFAIK nobody else ships them.

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Bug#1029977: libncurses-dev: drop ncurses{w,}5-config symlinks Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2023-01-29 20:20 +0100
  Bug#1029977: libncurses-dev: drop ncurses{w,}5-config symlinks Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2023-01-30 18:10 +0100

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