Package: rxvt-unicode
Version: 9.12-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
rxvt-unicode use by default a terminfo that is not available on all
system (that is, lots of non-linux machine or even linux servers (with
few gui applications installed) do not have this terminfo entry
installed).
When login to such a machine with ssh, you got a message such as
unknown terminal "rxvt-unicode"
If you are not root on the target system, you have to compile your
terminfo entry.
Until now, I was looking into the installed documentation of
rxvt-unicode of my local computer (where I launch rxvt-unicode) to find
the tip, ie (from upsteam FAQ):
REMOTE=remotesystem.domain
infocmp rxvt-unicode | ssh $REMOTE "mkdir -p .terminfo && cat >/tmp/ti &&
tic /tmp/ti"
Today, I did not find this tip. Looking into the Changelog, I see the
entry saying that it has been removed:
* Document the fact that $TERM defaults to rxvt-unicode (not rxvt), and how
to change this with X resources. Users do not (and should not) have to
compile terminfo entries, so remove these from examples; ncurses-base
provides a proper one already. (Closes: #351872)
Perhaps that "Users do not (and should not) have to..." but, in
practice, "users have to..." if they want to use rxvt-unicode and do ssh
on remote systems that do not have this terminfo entry installed.
Moreover, ncurses-base does not currently provides such example ("dpkg
-L ncurses-base" does not give me any files where I can find this info)
I've to look into the #351872 bug report to find the initial
reporter that give a link to the upstream FAQ. I really do not think
that a Debian user having such an error message when doing ssh will be
able to find the info if it does not already know what to search.
So, please, reconsider your decision to remove this example and re-add
this upstream FAQ entry in the Debian package.
Regards,
Vincent
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages rxvt-unicode depends on:
ii base-passwd 3.5.23
ii libc6 2.13-21
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-3
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.1-13
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.24.0-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1
ii libperl5.12 5.12.4-5
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-2
ii libxft2 2.2.0-3
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-2
ii ncurses-base 5.9-2
Versions of packages rxvt-unicode recommends:
ii ttf-dejavu 2.33-2
ii ttf-sazanami-gothic 20040629-12
rxvt-unicode suggests no packages.
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