Audit gives warning re ncurses required for new formula (bower)

[hgvhgv]

Output of brew config

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.5.2-64-gbdf738e
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: bdf738ef109a0960b14fba73c3e847991037fbef
Last commit: 61 minutes ago
Branch: master
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Core cask tap last commit: 32 minutes ago
Core cask tap JSON: 15 May 15:44 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_BROWSER: /Applications/Brave Browser.app
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_EDITOR: nvim
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 8
HOMEBREW_SORBET_RUNTIME: set
Homebrew Ruby: 3.4.4 => /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.4.4/bin/ruby
CPU: octa-core 64-bit arm_blizzard_avalanche
Clang: 17.0.0 build 1700
Git: 2.39.5 => /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git
Curl: 8.7.1 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 15.5-arm64
CLT: 16.3.0.0.1.1742442376
Xcode: N/A
Rosetta 2: false

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Uncommitted files:
   M Formula/b/bower.rb
   M audit_exceptions/provided_by_macos_depends_on_allowlist.json

Description of issue

I am working on a new formula for the bower TUI MUA (https://github.com/wangp/bower). It's pretty simple and seems straightforward (see formula below). But it requires ncurses with wide character support, which, AFAIK, isn't part of the standard macos ncurses install. But using depends_on "ncurses" => :build triggers an audit warning: "* Dependency 'ncurses' is provided by macOS; please replace 'depends_on' with 'uses_from_macos'." This post https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/4623 tells me to add the formula in question as an audit exception to this list https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/audit_exceptions/provided_by_macos_depends_on_allowlist.json; that didn't work, but adding ncurses to the list did work.

How should I proceed? Should I submit a new version of the audit exception list with ncurses added when I submit my new formula, or should I just submit it knowing the audit will produce an error? Or have I misunderstood something about the preinstalled ncurses on macos, which can in fact be used?

class Bower < Formula
  desc "Curses terminal client for the Notmuch email system"
  homepage "https://github.com/wangp/bower"
  url "https://github.com/wangp/bower/archive/refs/tags/1.1.1.tar.gz"
  sha256 "4c041681332d355710aa2f2a935ea56fbb2ba8d614be81dee594c431a1d493d9"
  license "GPL-3.0-only"

  depends_on "gpgme" => :build
  depends_on "mercury" => :build
  depends_on "ncurses" => :build
  depends_on "pandoc" => :build

  depends_on "coreutils"
  depends_on "notmuch"

  def install
    ENV.append "CFLAGS", "-I#{Formula["ncurses"].opt_include}"
    ENV.append "LDFLAGS", "-L#{Formula["ncurses"].opt_lib}"
    ENV.append "CPPFLAGS", "-I#{Formula["ncurses"].opt_include}"

    system "make"
    system "make", "man"
    bin.install "bower"
    man1.install "bower.1"
  end

  test do
    system bin/"bower", "--version"
  end
end

[p-linnane]

You can try building it with uses_from_macos "ncurses" => :build rather than depends_on "ncurses" => :build. If that doesn't work, you can just submit it and we'll manually override the audit. We try to use the built in macOS components wherever possible.

[hgvhgv]

Sorry, I should have explained that I did already try that and received the following error:

** Error making `bower'.
ld: library 'ncursesw' not found

So I will submit and request the override. Thanks!