On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-12-21 04:58 +0100, brian m. carlson wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:06:00PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
The changes to the kFreeBSD console and the kbdcontrol package (see
#605065 and #605777) need to be accompanied by changing the cons25
terminfo entry accordingly, otherwise ncurses-based programs severely
misbehave.
You really can't just unilaterally change the cons25 terminfo entry. If
this proposed change is implemented, people running stock FreeBSD will
have their consoles broken if they log into a Debian system.
Right, they will have the opposite problem then, the delete key deletes
backwards while backspace works correctly. Note that a similar problem
already exists for the xterm terminfo entry, see
/usr/share/doc/libncurses5/FAQ.
If kFreeBSD needs different settings than the stock cons25 entry, it
needs to create and use a different TERM type.
I suppose that ncurses-base would ship the terminfo entry for it, and
kfreebsd-image-* packages need to depend on an ncurses-base version that
has this terminfo entry, right? Any suggestions for the name?
perhaps "kons25"
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