On 2018-05-05 10:22 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Package: fbterm
> Version: 1.7-4
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Last year the fbterm terminal description was added to ncurses
> upstream, and I would like to add it to the ncurses-term package,
> replacing the one shipped currently in the fbterm package.
>
> This requires coordinated uploads of ncurses and fbterm, adding a
> versioned Breaks/Replaces on fbterm to ncurses-term and a versioned
> dependency on ncurses-term to fbterm.
>
> The benefit for fbterm users would be that ncurses-term is much more
> likely to be installed on any remote system they might want to connect
> to than fbterm, so setting TERM=fbterm has a higher chance to work in
> such cases.
Gentle ping, as there has been no reply yet. I still think this would
be a good idea, and you do not need to run tic at build time as well
(see #1034644).
Cheers,
Sven
