Hi, Sven Joachim wrote: > Many terminal emulators default to TERM=xterm-256color these days, for > instance those based on libvte-2.91 as well as KDE's konsole. For > better or worse, screen then by default sets TERM to > screen.xterm-256color if the latter is present in the terminfo database. > > Since terminal emulators setting TERM to xterm-256color are popular and > screen is popular, it follows that screen.xterm-256color is also popular > and thus should be included in ncurses-base.
Confirmed. Had reports about that combination recently, too, IIRC from someone working on MacOS X locally. > Opinions from the screen maintainers (in X-Debbugs-CC) would be > welcome. Sounds like a good idea to me, with the similar drawbacks in mind: > The only downside I see is that one of the suggested workarounds for > #854414 (installing ncurses-term locally) does no longer work, There are also some cases, where uninstalling ncurses-term is a proposed solution, which then wouldn't help respectively uninstalling the according termcap entries will no more be possible. > but I think uninstalling ncurses-term is not a great idea anyway. Same here, but I know that there are people who think otherwise, see e.g. https://pkgs.org/download/ncurses-term-considered-harmful Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
