Updated: terminfo-5.5_20060323-1

[Charles Wilson]

Thomas Wolff wrote:
> I think and I'd like to suggest that the terminfo package should also 
> update the file /etc/termcap in order to maintain consistent references 
> to terminal capabilities. (The desired entries can easily be generated 
> automatically with infocmp -Cr .)
> /etc/termcap currently contains buggy entries that cause interworking 
> problems. For a description, please see 
>  https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=163715

All of that may be true.  However, termcap doesn't belong to me, it is 
part of the termcap-20050421-1 package.  If the owner of that package -- 
who is not me -- wants to replace it with a package that simply
   (1) requires: terminfo ncurses libncurses8
   (2) provides only
         /usr/include/termcap.h
         /usr/lib/libtermcap.a
         /usr/share/man/man3/termcap.3
       but not /etc/termcap
   (3) has a postinstall script that does 'infocmp -Cr' to autogen a
       termcap file from the terminfo database
That's up to him.

On the other hand, that's a lot of dependencies when he could just 
re-create /etc/termcap that way himself and ship it in place of the one 
shipped now.  But in either case, that's his business, not mine.

I'm not going to touch it.

> Another note: There is a dangling link
>  /usr/share/terminfo/terminfo -> ../share/terminfo

Thanks for the report -- but /usr/share/terminfo/terminfo appears to be 
a leftover from some old version of the ncurses packages.  Current 
ncurses and terminfo packages do not provide or create 
/usr/share/terminfo/terminfo.

terminfo's postinstall script does create /usr/lib/terminfo, but that's it.

Just rm the dangling link and you'll be fine.

--
Chuck


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