On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 23:11:31 +0300, Riku Saikkonen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> writes:
> >can you check if the change I've made makes sense?  (And if we need to
> >keep the xterm-debian definition for backwards-compatibility reasons?)
> 
> Just a note from an outsider that follows debian-x every now and then:
> maybe it would be useful to keep the comment that refers to Debian
> Policy 9.8? The idea being that it gives a reference to a "rationale"
> for the backspace behavior, so if someone has a broken backspace and
> examines the termcap or terminfo entry, the comment would point them
> somewhere that explains the situation (and, perhaps more importantly,
> reminds the reader that this is something that needs to be kept
> consistent and is thus specified in a policy, and changing it in one
> place could break things somewhere else).
> 
Restored the pointer to Policy 9.8, thanks for the suggestion.

Cheers,
Julien


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