Bug#1068492: gnome-terminal: $TERM values not documented

[Søren Rune Nissen]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.44.0-1ubuntu1pop0~1650921985~22.04~c2346f6
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: soren.nissen+reportbug at gmail.com

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Dear Maintainer,

    * What led up to the situation?

    tmux requires $TERM to be set correctly so I checked the value of
    $TERM and realized I had no idea what would BE a correct value

    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
      ineffective)?

    I read the documentation at https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal

    * What was the outcome of this action?

    I learned nothing about gnome-terminal, there is almost nothing
    documented about it at all.

    * What outcome did you expect instead?

    To be honest, that outcome is pretty much as I expected. Nobody ever
    documents anything. But what I had HOPED to find was full reference
    documentation for gnome-terminal.

    gnome expects me to file bugs against my distro rather than use
    their issue tracker, so you're the ones getting it (and thank you
    for maintaining debian) but it probably needs to be forwarded to
    them directly.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
   APT prefers jammy-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'jammy-updates'), (500, 'jammy-security'), (500, 
'jammy'), (100, 'jammy-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.6.10-76060610-generic (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, 
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE 
not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-db  1.12.20-2ubuntu4.1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gset  0.40.0-3
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                1.72.0-1
ii  gnome-terminal-data 
3.44.0-1ubuntu1pop0~1650921985~22.04~c2346f6
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas      42.0-1ubuntu1
ii  libc6                          2.35-0ubuntu3.6
ii  libcairo2                      1.16.0-5ubuntu2
ii  libdconf1                      0.40.0-3
ii  libgcc-s1                      12.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04
ii  libglib2.0-0                   2.72.4-0ubuntu2.2
ii  libgtk-3-0                     3.24.33-1ubuntu2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                 1.50.6+ds-2ubuntu1
ii  libstdc++6                     12.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04
ii  libuuid1                       2.37.2-4ubuntu3
ii  libvte-2.91-0                  0.68.0-1
ii  libx11-6                       2:1.7.5-1ubuntu0.3
ii  python3                        3.10.6-1~22.04
ii  python3-gi                     3.42.1-0ubuntu1

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                           1.48.2-0ubuntu1
ii  nautilus-extension-gnome-term 
3.44.0-1ubuntu1pop0~1650921985~22.04~c2346f6
ii  yelp                           42.1-1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information