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> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 11:29:55 -0800
> Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> "Completely broken" in the sense it won't link and Emacs won't build, 
> yes. (It will link in master, due to a patch I installed recently.)
> 
> And yes, the original curses library has been obsolete for at least two 
> decades.
> 
> > Is there any reason to keep it around?
> 
> Not that I know of.

What about ncurses?