Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:20:33 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Updated: terminfo-5.5_20060323-1
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On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:46:46AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>I think and I'd like to suggest that the terminfo package should also 
>>update the file /etc/termcap in order to maintain consistent references 
>>to terminal capabilities. (The desired entries can easily be generated 
>>automatically with infocmp -Cr .)
>>/etc/termcap currently contains buggy entries that cause interworking 
>>problems. For a description, please see 
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=163715
>
>All of that may be true.  However, termcap doesn't belong to me, it is 
>part of the termcap-20050421-1 package.  If the owner of that package -- 
>who is not me -- wants to replace it with a package that simply
>  (1) requires: terminfo ncurses libncurses8
>  (2) provides only
>        /usr/include/termcap.h
>        /usr/lib/libtermcap.a
>        /usr/share/man/man3/termcap.3
>      but not /etc/termcap
>  (3) has a postinstall script that does 'infocmp -Cr' to autogen a
>      termcap file from the terminfo database
>That's up to him.
>
>On the other hand, that's a lot of dependencies when he could just 
>re-create /etc/termcap that way himself and ship it in place of the one 
>shipped now.  But in either case, that's his business, not mine.
>
>I'm not going to touch it.

This has come up repeatedly and, yes, I know about infocmp.

I consider the termcap package a legacy package.  The only changes that
I'm going to make are minor.  I'm not going to regenerate the whole thing
from terminfo since it didn't come from terminfo to begin with and the
infocmp conversion is not perfect.  I'm not interested in getting bug
reports because infocmp created entries that can't be read by libtermcap.

cgf

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