Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:29:21 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db Message-ID: <86ws0w4c8e.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20091209122532.2c55aa22@ernst.jennejohn.org> (Gary Jennejohn's message of "Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:25:32 %2B0100") References: <86d42pjc1n.fsf@bifteki.lan> <20091209122532.2c55aa22@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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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. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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