Source: ncurses Version: 6.4-4 Severity: wishlist For historical reasons, Debian has forked off the rxvt* terminfo entries, which are built from a separate file debian/rxvt.ti. This file has rarely seen any updates, and I think it is time to get rid of it, considering that rxvt got superseded by rxvt-unicode in Debian several years ago[1].
The following noteworthy deviations from upstream are mentioned in the file: ,---- | # Debian uses two termcap/terminfo entries: | # rxvt for color displays | # rxvt-m for monochrome displays | # Debian also prefers ^? for kbs (backspace). `---- Actually rxvt-m is an alias for rxvt-basic, and kbs=^? rather than kbs=^H is in accordance with Debian's keyboard configuration policy[2]. We could apply these changes to terminfo.src, but do we actually care given that rxvt is dead upstream and unsupported? 1. https://bugs.debian.org/848284 2. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#keyboard-configuration
