ncurses: Move termcap and tabset to ncurses-lib
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Authored by ivy on Nov 6 2025, 2:46 AM.

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rG8a8f2ebd2d3e: ncurses: Move termcap and tabset to ncurses-lib

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termcap and tabset are currently in runtime, but since ncurses is the
only thing which uses them, they belong in the ncurses package.

curses without termcap is not very useful, so put them in the -lib
subpackage rather than ncurses itself, so that installing ncurses-lib
provides a working curses.

This change moves files between packages so, until we have a proper
policy on how to handle this in release/stable branches, it should
not be MFC'd.

MFC after: never
Discussed with: kevans
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ivy created this revision.Nov 6 2025, 2:46 AM

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Closed by commit rG8a8f2ebd2d3e: ncurses: Move termcap and tabset to ncurses-lib (authored by ivy). · Explain WhyNov 6 2025, 3:23 PM

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ivy added a commit: rG8a8f2ebd2d3e: ncurses: Move termcap and tabset to ncurses-lib.

termcap is also used by applications that do not use curses, especially those that do terminal stuff based on other libraries. It might be a good idea to either unbundle it from curses or to keep it in runtime.