termcap maintainer?

2005-04-21 Thread Schulman . Andrew
Do we have a maintainer for termcap?  The package doesn't include any 
documentation at all, including any mention of a maintainer.

The screen package, which I am working on building, includes some new 
termcap entries.  I could just have the screen installer append them to 
/etc/termcap, but it would be better to fix /etc/termcap in the termcap 
package.

Thanks,
Andrew.



Re: termcap maintainer?

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:01:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do we have a maintainer for termcap?  The package doesn't include any 
documentation at all, including any mention of a maintainer.

The screen package, which I am working on building, includes some new 
termcap entries.  I could just have the screen installer append them to 
/etc/termcap, but it would be better to fix /etc/termcap in the termcap 
package.

I'm the maintainer but the package has been deprecated on UNIX/Linux for
quite some time.  You should be using terminfo.

cgf


Re: termcap maintainer?

2005-04-21 Thread Schulman . Andrew
 I'm the maintainer but the package has been deprecated on UNIX/Linux for
 quite some time.  You should be using terminfo.

terminfo already includes definitions for screen terminals, so that's no 
problem.  Are you saying then that I should just ignore the extra termcap 
entries for screen, screen-bce, and screen-s, which don't appear in 
/etc/termcap?



Re: termcap maintainer?

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:30:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'm the maintainer but the package has been deprecated on UNIX/Linux for
 quite some time.  You should be using terminfo.

terminfo already includes definitions for screen terminals, so that's no 
problem.  Are you saying then that I should just ignore the extra termcap 
entries for screen, screen-bce, and screen-s, which don't appear in 
/etc/termcap?

There is no harm in including them but I really don't think there are (m)any
programs out there who would take advantage of them.

I'll make a new release today.

cgf


Re: termcap maintainer?

2005-04-21 Thread Schulman . Andrew
 There is no harm in including them but I really don't think there are 
(m)any
 programs out there who would take advantage of them.
 
 I'll make a new release today.

OK, thanks.  A.



Re: termcap maintainer?

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:37:35PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:30:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm the maintainer but the package has been deprecated on UNIX/Linux
for quite some time.  You should be using terminfo.

terminfo already includes definitions for screen terminals, so that's
no problem.  Are you saying then that I should just ignore the extra
termcap entries for screen, screen-bce, and screen-s, which don't
appear in /etc/termcap?

There is no harm in including them but I really don't think there are
(m)any programs out there who would take advantage of them.

I'll make a new release today.

Done.  I'll hold off announcing this until after you've released screen,
though.  I wouldn't want to get anyone prematurely excited about having
screen available at long last.

cgf


Re: termcap maintainer?

2005-04-21 Thread Schulman . Andrew
 I'll hold off announcing this until after you've released screen,
 though.  I wouldn't want to get anyone prematurely excited about having
 screen available at long last.

Yes, especially since it doesn't work yet.  I'll post an update about this 
soon.  A.