Re: xterm* terminfo entries missing in terminfo.src

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 07:35:00PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 08:57:37PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > There are some xterm* terminfo entries which are distributed with xterm,
> > but not with ncurses (and vice versa, but that is currently not really
> > interesting to me).
...
> > Some background: Debian has, at least for the last 21 years, compiled
> > its xterm* terminfo files from the (slightly modified) xterm source,
> > rather than from ncurses' terminfo.misc.  As Debian maintainer I
> > consider that a bug and would like to change it, but this is quite
> > difficult when xterm-mono is missing, since we are currently shipping
> > xterm-mono in ncurses-base.
...
> I suppose you could summarize that as saying that they weren't suitable
> for ncurses in some way.

It seems that all Debian actually needs is "xterm-mono",
and adding an alias (xterm-mono to xterm-r6) is the appropriate fix.
and that if there's actually a user of the other entries,
that should be a bug report against ncurses.

The terminfo file from xterm actually should be installed by its
respective package - it shouldn't be hard to provide a script which
installs only the entries which aren't in ncurses-term or ncurses-base.

(I've added an "xterm-mono" to ncurses, and upcoming xterm #350 will
resolve the differences which I pointed out).

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