Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 07:37:05 -0500 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serious (ha-ha) bug in 4.9-RELEASE Message-ID: <200311040737.06415.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20031104000637.GA25819@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <3FA6CF61.2040007@tenebras.com> <20031103155057.578599c6.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> <20031104000637.GA25819@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Monday 03 November 2003 07:06 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote:
| On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:50:57PM -0800, Chris Pressey wrote:
| > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:17:26 +0100
| >
| > Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote:
| > > I am quite certain it is a local problem at your end.
| >
| > Seems odd that it would be affecting my system as well, then :)
|
| Alright, so I was mistaken. It is not a local problem.
|
| > > What value is your TERM environment variable set to?
| >
| > # echo $TERM
| > xterm
| >
| > Note that the problem doesn't show up for me under cons25.
|
| Yeah, I noticed. Eventually.
|
| > The md5 hash of my /usr/share/misc/termcap is identical to the one given
| > in the previous message.
| >
| > I have no idea.
|
| It seems that the termcap entry for xterm was substantially changed
| between 4.8-release and 4.9-release.
| One change was the removal of of the "bs" capability which
| /usr/games/hack requires. That capability is documented as being
| obsolete and that programs shouldn't depend on it, so it seems that the
| bug is in /usr/games/hack rather than termcap.
Well, perhaps, but was there some particular *benefit* to removing the "bs"
capability? It seems sort of perverse / unexpected to remove functionality,
even old/depricated functionality, unless it's doing some harm, especially on
a "point release." (Removing it from 4.x to 5.x wouldn't seem so
surprising.)
OTOH, the fact that nobody seems to have noticed until after 4.9 was released
is a pretty strong argument that not very many people care--unless of
course :-)
I checked the CVS respository, and this change seems to have been made *six*
months ago:
Revision 1.89.2.25 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Tue Apr 29
12:01:57 2003 UTC (6 months ago) by schweikh
Branch: RELENG_4
Changes since 1.89.2.24: +239 -81 lines
Diff to previous 1.89.2.24 (colored) to branchpoint 1.89 (colored)
MFC: mostly xterm changes (no more need for xterm-color, which is now an
alias for xterm); removal of some two character names.
PR: bin/41143
The motiviation for the change was:
FreeBSD doesn't ship a termcap that is compatible with the
color Xterm shipped by XFree86, certainly not as of
XFree86-4.2 (and probably not ever).
| Most of the programs in /usr/games are old and hasn't been updated in a
| long while, so it isn't exactly surprising that things break eventually
| as the rest of the system changes.
| (The termcap code in /usr/games/hack doesn't seem to have been changed
| since it was first imported back in 1994.)
--
Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal)
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