configure: --with-termlib vs --disable-tic-depends

[Sven Joachim]

The INSTALL file says the following about the --disable-tic-depends:

    --disable-tic-depends
        When building shared libraries, normally the tic library is linked to
        depend upon the ncurses library (and in turn, on the term-library if
        the --with-termlib option was given).  The tic- and term-libraries
        ABI does not depend on the --enable-widec option. Some packagers have
        used this to reduce the number of library files which are packaged
        by using only one copy of those libraries.  To make this work properly,
        the tic library must be built without an explicit dependency on the
        ncurses (or ncursesw) library.  Use this configure option to do that.
        For example
                configure --with-ticlib --with-shared --disable-tic-depends

However, the current Debian packages are configured with
--with-termlib=tinfo, but without --disable-tic-depends, and yet libtic
only depends on libtinfo, not on libncurses.  So this option does not
actually seem to be necessary.

Am I missing something?

Cheers,
       Sven