Bug#368916: Patch in debian package?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 06:00:21PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> On sam, 2007-12-22 at 18:23 +0100, Patrik Fimml wrote:
> > Seeing not much progress on this issue upstream, a patch on the Debian
> > side would be useful, I think. The variable actually should be
> > TERM=gnome-256color, which is included in the "ncurses-term" package. A
> > dependency on this package should be introduced together with the patch
> > (kterm depends on it as well, so that shouldn't be much of a problem).
> 
> This is feasible, but we’d need to test it on a wide scale, because it
> could break a lot of things.
> 
> Daniel, do you know how the gnome-* terminfo entries were written? Are
> they actually based on the vte capabilities? If they do, why not
> shipping them directly in the vte packages?

I wrote the gnome* terminfo entries.  gnome developers iirc have a copy
of the "xterm" terminfo in their sources.  vte, for practical purposes, is
undocumented. I write/update terminfo entries when I happen to
notice that the gnome developers have made some change which invalidates
the terminfo.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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