[ CC'ing ncurses upstream maintainer. ]
On 2010-04-20 13:28 +0200, Craig Small wrote:
> I've recently got this email. The proposal would be to put the mlterm
> terminfo file back into ncurses-term and remove it from the mlterm
> package.
>
> I think this is a good idea and ncurses-term is better suited as
> ncurses-base is for the more common ones.
>
> Bug 458448 has some discussion but I cannot see why we wouldn't use the
> ncurses one. If you have any objections let me know otherwise I'll make
> the adjustments.
The only problem I see is that mlterm 3.0.0 added support for 256 colors
which we should not use in ncurses-term to avoid breaking older
versions. Probably it would be best to add an mlterm-256color entry to
ncurses' terminfo.src.
Otherwise I don't really have an opinion since I do not use mlterm.
Cheers,
Sven
> ----- Forwarded message from أحمد المحمودي <[email protected]> -----
> Hello,
>
> Recently I've been helping Kenshi Muto in packaging mlterm, I found a
> rather old bug requestion that mlterm package stops shipping the
> terminfo entry for mlterm, as ncurses upstream ships one that is even
> better. So I've changed that in git already [1], yet I'd like to
> co-ordinate with you when to release this fix in order that users of
> mlterm won't miss the mlterm terminfo entry for a long period. So what
> do you say ?
>
> [1]
> http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/mlterm.git;a=commit;h=9d5316d541ce1837b54d071fa16fb9fcb5efb2ad
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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