splitoff versions of essential packages

Dear fink developers,

Over the past few weeks, I added BuildDepends on bzip2-dev, gettext-dev,
libiconv-dev and/or ncurses-dev to many many packages.  The corresponding
"splitoff" versions of these essential packages have now been added to
the unstable tree, and will move to stable after a testing period.

Please be sure, when revising any of your current packages, to check
and see if there is a new BuildDepends, which should be preserved in
future versions and revisions.

The way to test whether this (or other) -dev's are necessary for the
BuildDepends line is to examine the libraries and executables from your
package, using "otool -L".  It will report on the libraries which
are linked in, and generally you must specify a BuildDepends on the
corresponding -dev package.  The libraries for these essential packages
are still essential, but the headers and symlinks in the -dev package
are no longer essential and must be explicitly specified.

  -- Dave


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