bug#44106: closed (alacritty : add terminfo fix)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: alacritty : add terminfo fix Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:06:52 +0200

  Hello Guix !

  When installed on an user extra-profile, `alacritty` does not add to
$TERMINFO_DIRS. Solved by using the attached patch. I have stolen this
fix from the guix `rxvt-unicode` package.

  Best regards,
  Fulbert

0001-Apply-terminfo-fix-https-bugs.gnu.org-22138-stolen-f.patch
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> Hi,
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> Fulbert <fulbert@bluewin.ch> skribis:
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> >   When installed on an user extra-profile, `alacritty` does not add to
> > $TERMINFO_DIRS. Solved by using the attached patch. I have stolen this
> > fix from the guix `rxvt-unicode` package.
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> > Subject: [PATCH] Apply terminfo fix (https://bugs.gnu.org/22138) (stolen from
> >  rxvt-unicode package)
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> >  gnu/packages/terminals.scm | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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> > diff --git a/gnu/packages/terminals.scm b/gnu/packages/terminals.scm
> > index e596c1b81f..fc30550e3b 100644
> > --- a/gnu/packages/terminals.scm
> > +++ b/gnu/packages/terminals.scm
> > @@ -1312,6 +1312,10 @@ made by suckless.")
> >         ("ncurses" ,ncurses)
> >         ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
> >         ("python3" ,python)))
> > +    (native-search-paths
> > +      (list (search-path-specification
> > +              (variable "TERMINFO_DIRS")
> > +              (files '("share/terminfo")))))
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> I committed it (with a commit log that follows our conventions), but
> added a FIXME as can be seen above in the file.  We usually avoid
> workarounds for this bug but there’s a precedent in this file, so so be it!
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> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
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