[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1104282: Terminfo for alacritty not installed

Chris Hofstaedtler zeha at debian.org
Mon Apr 28 09:48:00 BST 2025


* martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> [250428 10:45]:
>```
>% infocmp alacritty
>infocmp: error: no match in terminfo database for terminal type "alacritty"
>```
>I would assume that alacritty at least installs its own terminfo. As it
>is, alacritty falls back to `xterm-256color`.

As was discussed on IRC, ncurses-term provides the terminfo. Maybe 
alacritty should Depend: on it.

Installing the terminfo from two packages will just cause conflicts.

Chris



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