Package: ncurses-term Version: 6.2+20210905-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
In ncurses-term 6.2+20210905-1, the terminfo entries from the deceased Debian packages jfbterm, kon2, libiterm1 and tn5250 were taken over. However, is it really necessary? Because this will cause conflict if we want to install the package jfbterm, for example. Although jfbterm is not maintained by Debian anymore, but it's still available: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/jfbterm/ We can easily package it and install it on Debian. However, with ncurses-term 6.2+20210905-1, it conflicts with the original jfbterm in the file "/usr/share/terminfo/j/jfbterm". If there is no jfbterm on the Debian system, then we do not need the terminfo /usr/share/terminfo/j/jfbterm. However, when we need it, and install it, this existing /usr/share/terminfo/j/jfbterm from ncurses-term 6.2+20210905-1 will make the install fail. Therefore, it seems to be more reasonable to remove those terminfo files? My 2 cents. Steven -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages ncurses-term depends on: ii ncurses-base 6.2+20210905-1 ncurses-term recommends no packages. ncurses-term suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 4096R/163E3FB0 Fingerprint: EB1D D5BF 6F88 820B BCF5 356C 8E94 C9CD 163E 3FB0
