On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Kamus wrote:

> @Thomas, please what do you mean with mis-triaging? I closed this report
> because have a long time here without activity and since nobody has
> confirmed this problem I change to invalid until other people can check
> if this issue is still occurring. Please remember some paragraphs of
> code of conduct my friend.

There's enough information to see the basic problem.
What's lacking is for the package maintainer to follow the thread,
ask questions if they don't follow it.

The essential problem reported is that Ubuntu's customization to change 
kbs (presumably to change it from ^H to \177) did not work for the person 
who reported the problem.  That can be because the screen entries did not 
contain that customization, or due to an error in one of the special 
terminfo entries (even a bug in screen ;-).

ncurses's terminfo database contains some special entries which are 
interpreted by screen, e.g., these listed by toe:

screen.xterm-xfree86    screen customized for modern xterm
screen.xterm-r6 screen customized for X11R6 xterm
screen.teraterm disable ncv in teraterm
screen.rxvt     screen in rxvt
screen.Eterm    screen in Eterm
screen.linux    screen in linux console
screen.mlterm   screen in mlterm

That is, outside 'screen', if $TERM is "mlterm", for instance, it
would use "screen.mlterm".  Those entries work around various problems
with screen's matching _exactly_ a given terminal entry.

The followup should have been focused on first verifying what the
terminfo entry inside 'screen' was, and what the special entry shows,
to see if one of those displays the problem.  If they're set properly,
then (barring the reporter _wanting_ kbs=^H), then it should have been
reassigned back to screen's maintainer to analyze.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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Screen missing terminfo entries for 'xterm'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190852
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