--- ncurses.old/debian/control	Mon Oct 20 19:04:21 2008
+++ /opt/emdebian/trunk/n/ncurses/trunk/ncurses-5.6+20081012/debian/control	Mon Oct 20 19:09:34 2008
@@ -154,7 +154,6 @@
 Architecture: any
 Section: utils
 Priority: required
-Essential: yes
 Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Conflicts: ncurses, tput
 Provides: tput
@@ -167,7 +166,6 @@
 Architecture: all
 Section: utils
 Priority: required
-Essential: yes
 Conflicts: ncurses, ncurses-runtime
 Provides: ncurses-runtime
 Replaces: ncurses-term