On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-08-17 16:34 +0200, Reuben Thomas wrote:
Package: ncurses-term
Version: 5.7+20101128-1
Severity: normal
Running rxvt-unicode 9.09, it comes up with TERM=rxvt-256color.
terminfo has kbs=^H, which seems wrong, as C-v Backspace gives ^?. If
I run rxvt 2.6.4 on the same system, it comes up with TERM=rxvt, and
kbs=\177. Shouldn't rxvt-256color have the same kbs setting as rxvt?
Yes, it should.
(Tom Dickey advised this is a packaging bug, not an upstream ncurses
bug; he wrote:
well... All of the kbs stuff is done by the Debian packager.
In my reply, I also mentioned an idea that I had (from October 2009)* for
factoring-out kbs into its own building block. For each terminal
description which uses it, it would provide a single point to update. I
implemented it as a demo in my ongoing changes to xterm
(ftp://invisible-island.net/temp), but am unsure whether something like
that would be useful for Debian packaging.
(there are of course drawbacks such as inevitably missing or including
the wrong dependent descriptions)
(*) there are 1388 items in my to-do list at the moment...
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Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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