Re: new modules termcap, termcap-h

[Bruno Haible]

For the reasons listed in
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2022-01/msg00183.html>
everyone should prefer terminfo over termcap. Therefore:


2022-02-06  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>

        termcap, termcap-h: Deprecate.
        * modules/termcap (Status, Notice): Add deprecation.
        * modules/termcap-h (Status, Notice): Likewise.

diff --git a/modules/termcap b/modules/termcap
index 647cde8107..4f9156c4e6 100644
--- a/modules/termcap
+++ b/modules/termcap
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 Description:
 Information about terminal capabilities.
 
+Status:
+deprecated
+
+Notice:
+This module is deprecated. Use the module 'terminfo' instead;
+it avoids buffer overflow problems when possible.
+
 Files:
 m4/termcap.m4
 m4/curses.m4
diff --git a/modules/termcap-h b/modules/termcap-h
index ff5846bc50..a01b242ec6 100644
--- a/modules/termcap-h
+++ b/modules/termcap-h
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 Description:
 Information about terminal capabilities.
 
+Status:
+deprecated
+
+Notice:
+This module is deprecated. Use the module 'terminfo-h' instead;
+it avoids buffer overflow problems when possible.
+
 Files:
 lib/termcap.h