On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 04:36:05PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-06-22 13:08 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2009-12-23 02:54 +0100, Josh Triplett wrote: > >> Please include the terminfo entry for bterm, preferably in ncurses-base, > >> but if not there then in ncurses-term. > > > > Taking over the bterm terminfo entry from bogl-bterm in ncurses-term > > would be possible, but given bogl-bterm's very low popcon I don't think > > it would be very useful. > > Perhaps bogl-bterm should be updated to use the terminfo entry from > ncurses introduced in the 20091226 patch. Outside the Debian installer > bterm does not seem to be of much use.
OK, that makes sense. It looks like ncurses doesn't ship that terminfo entry, though (perhaps to avoid conflicting with bterm?). Perhaps ncurses could start shipping that terminfo entry, and bterm could stop shipping it and add an appropriate versioned dependency? I agree that bterm doesn't see much use outside the Debian installer, but making the Debian base system work with the Debian installer in rescue mode seems worth shipping one more terminfo file. Terminfo files seem quite small (~1-3k depending on complexity), and ncurses-base already ships a few other unusual terminfo entries for convenience of remote access, such as cygwin. (Not to mention a pile of slight variations on xterm and screen.) - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
