Package: libvte-2.91-common Version: 0.50.2-4 The contents of /usr/share/vte/termcap-2.91/xterm have been unchanged at least since 0.28 (gtk2), about 6 years ago.
xterm's terminfo description has changed significantly since then. VTE's behavior has changed a lot (got much closer to xterm). I don't think anyone locates that file there, no one would search for any file under that directory. VTE has defaulted to TERM=xterm-256color for quite some time now, so apps open the terminal description file "xterm-256color" and not "xterm", under whichever other directory. And xterm-256color is not even defined in this file. I'm quite certain this file isn't used by anyone (if it is, that's a huge problem), and its contents are heavily obsolete. Its presence might be misleading though for anyone looking at the package's contents.