On 2010-06-22 17:36 +0200, Josh Triplett wrote: > 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?).
There are some terminfo entries that are blacklisted in ncurses and shipped from the terminal emulator's package instead. I'm not sure in which cases this is actually the best solution. For bterm there actually had been no terminfo entry in the ncurses source when you submitted the bug. > Perhaps ncurses could start shipping that terminfo entry, and bterm > could stop shipping it and add an appropriate versioned dependency? This is what we are going to do for mlterm, see #485448. But bterm will have to continue shipping its terminfo entry at least in the udeb. > 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. As I explained, the Squeeze installer does already work fine, so I'm not going to do that. > 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.) I suppose that remote access is actually much more common than using the installer in rescue mode, considering Debian's widespread use on servers. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
