On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 06:24:10PM -0500, micah anderson <mi...@riseup.net>
wrote:
> > Lenny is, of course, antique - it predates the 256 color support in urxvt,
> > and obviously cannot have that terminfo file.
>
> It may be antique, but it is still Debian Stable, and I regularly login
> to several hundred production servers that track stable and will
> continue to do so until the next stable release is available.
And there would be no problem if your debian maintainer hadn't changed
urxvt to be incompatible to lenny. Keep that in mind.
> and in less?
>
> mi...@~$ less /var/log/blah
> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
The terminfo file isn't installed...
I don't know what you argue for - because old lenny doesn't have the new
debian-specific, incompatible urxvt changes urxvt is somehow incompatible to
other distros?
Fact is, you can login to any newer system that has this terminfo, so other
distros are compatible top debian here.
Fact is also, those other distribution's urxvts can log in to lenny,
because they still use the 88 color version *by default* (and usually
allow users to switch if they so desire).
*We*, that is, upstream urxvt, have thought about compatibility issues and
produced a fully-compatible release.
What you are arguing is to use a broken terminfo file for urxvt, breaking
apps randomly, because debian insists on being incompatible.
This is simply a debian problem, as so many others. And with a maintainer
using such an attitude and behaviour, nothing will improve.
Deliberately breaking it even more by using a buggy terminfo file will
certainly not help you or other users.
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