Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream On 2016-05-07 05:08 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 10:23:32AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Package: ncurses-base >> Version: 6.0+20160319-1 >> Severity: normal >> >> The linux terminfo entry lacks the E3 capability, meaning that >> clear(1) does not clear the scrollback buffer. The capability was added >> to the linux3.0 terminfo entry, but we are not using this because it has >> some undesired side effects in non-Unicode locales, see the discussion >> in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665959. >> >> I'm not quite sure what to do, but given that Linux kernels older than >> 3.0 are now unsupported, the terminfo entry for linux should certainly >> advertise this capability. > > comparing linux to linux3.0. > comparing booleans. > comparing numbers. > comparing strings. > rmacs: '\E[10m', '^O'. > sgr: > '\E[0;10%?%p1%t;7%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p3%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p5%t;2%;%?%p6%t;1%;%?%p9%t;11%;m', > > '\E[0;10%?%p1%t;7%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p3%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p5%t;2%;%?%p6%t;1%;m%?%p9%t\016%e\017%;'. > sgr0: '\E[0;10m', '\E[m\017'. > smacs: '\E[11m', '^N'. > E3: NULL, '\E[3J'. > > E3 is (as far as I know) harmless; the other features were the reason for > reverting. When I checked a year or two ago, those were still relying on > an unofficial patch (since the entire concept of SI/SO offends UTF-8 > purists), and could be absent from various kernels. > > I'll see what I can learn, but adding E3 to "linux" might be the proper > change. The 20160514 patchlevel works fine, thanks. Looks like it fixes bug #515609[1] as well, doesn't it? Cheers, Sven 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515609
