From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2022 11:55:51 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: termcap, termcap-h: Deprecate.
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termcap, termcap-h: Deprecate.

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

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 18dcb3fe3f..0a6e4db723 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2022-02-06  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+	termcap, termcap-h: Deprecate.
+	* modules/termcap (Status, Notice): Add deprecation.
+	* modules/termcap-h (Status, Notice): Likewise.
+
 2022-02-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
 	parse-datetime: allow calculations to yield -1
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