Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:44:30 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de, ed@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db Message-ID: <20091210104430.1381356nnmx30okk@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20091209123246.22b9ecc3@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <86d42pjc1n.fsf@bifteki.lan> <20091209122532.2c55aa22@ernst.jennejohn.org> <86ws0w4c8e.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20091209123246.22b9ecc3@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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Quoting Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> (from Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:32:46 +0100): > On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:29:21 +0100 > Dag-Erling Sm__rgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > >> Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> writes: >> > Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr> writes: >> > > Why aren't these entries updated in order to match the ones that >> > > ship with xterm? Am I missing something? >> > Probably because xterm is under ports and termcap under src and it >> > would not be easy to track changes in ports under src. >> > >> > The only practical way to keep termcap up to date would be for the >> > committer updating the port to also check and update termcap under src. >> > The problem with this is that most ports committers aren't authorized >> > to make commits under src. >> >> That's not an issue - termcaps don't change all that often. We should >> just import the new definitions. >> > > That's a practical attitude, but it begs the question why it hasn't > happened in the past. The practical attitude should be coordinated with ed@ (CCed), as he switched the console in 9-current to be an xterm, and AFAIR it does not support as much colors as the real xterm. Maybe there is a reason to not update it. Bye, Alexander. -- You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up. -- Richard Nixon, 1952 http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137
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