Package: fbterm
Version: 1.7-4
Severity: wishlist
Last year the fbterm terminal description was added to ncurses
upstream, and I would like to add it to the ncurses-term package,
replacing the one shipped currently in the fbterm package.
This requires coordinated uploads of ncurses and fbterm, adding a
versioned Breaks/Replaces on fbterm to ncurses-term and a versioned
dependency on ncurses-term to fbterm.
The benefit for fbterm users would be that ncurses-term is much more
likely to be installed on any remote system they might want to connect
to than fbterm, so setting TERM=fbterm has a higher chance to work in
such cases.
Acknowledgement sent
to Sven Joachim <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <[email protected]>.
(Sat, 22 Jul 2023 06:45:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
On 2018-05-05 10:22 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Package: fbterm
> Version: 1.7-4
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Last year the fbterm terminal description was added to ncurses
> upstream, and I would like to add it to the ncurses-term package,
> replacing the one shipped currently in the fbterm package.
>
> This requires coordinated uploads of ncurses and fbterm, adding a
> versioned Breaks/Replaces on fbterm to ncurses-term and a versioned
> dependency on ncurses-term to fbterm.
>
> The benefit for fbterm users would be that ncurses-term is much more
> likely to be installed on any remote system they might want to connect
> to than fbterm, so setting TERM=fbterm has a higher chance to work in
> such cases.
Gentle ping, as there has been no reply yet. I still think this would
be a good idea, and you do not need to run tic at build time as well
(see #1034644).
Cheers,
Sven
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