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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:20:22 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: terminfo-5.7_20090221-10; NEW: terminfo-extra-5.7_20090221-10
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The terminfo package has been updated to version 5.7_20090221-1.  It
contains the terminfo database that enables proper operation of
ncurses-based applications.

This is the first release specific for cygwin-1.7; the only differences
between this package and the simultaneously-released
terminfo-5.7_20090221-1 for cygwin-1.5 are documentation related (the
README references cygport-0.9.4 and cygwin-1.7.0-40, and the
/usr/share/doc/ layout is influenced by the cygport changes between
0.4.x and 0.9.x).

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IMPORTANT:  You must upgrade libncurses8 (to 5.7-10) and terminfo (to
5.7_20090221-10) simultaneously.
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CHANGES (since 5.5_20061104-1)
========================
o Resync'ed with 20090221 patchlevel of ncurses-5.7
o Fork from cygwin-1.5 package development stream
o Build using stock cygport 0.9.4
o Split into two packages: terminfo and terminfo-extra.
  - terminfo contains the same terminals provided by Fedora 10's
    'ncurses-base' package, such as cygwin, vt*, xterm*,
    putty*, screen*, and rxvt*, and a few others.
  - terminfo-extra contains everything else.
o Upstream changes:
  - /usr/share/terminfo database now organized by hex code
    of first character (e.g. instead of r/rxvt, we have 72/rxvt
    (0x72 == 'r'). See warning, below.


WARNING:
========================
Because of a slight change in the organization of the terminfo database,
terminfo entries NOT part of the terminfo package may need to be
manually upgraded or moved.  To improve operation on case-insensitive
platforms, the terminfo database is now organizaed according to the
two-digit hexadecimal code of the entry's first letter, instead of
organized according to that first letter itself.  For instance:

  OLD             --->   NEW
  r/rxvt-unicode         72/rxvt-unicode

To "fix" any out-of-place entries, you may manually move them to the
correct location, or re-run tic.exe on the original terminfo source for
that terminal.  In the case of rxvt-unicode:

$ /etc/postinstall/rxvt-unicode.sh.done

will do the job.

-- 
Charles Wilson
terminfo volunteer maintainer for cygwin


To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
system.  Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.

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