#897959 fbterm: Please stop shipping /usr/share/terminfo/f/fbterm

Package:
fbterm
Source:
fbterm
Description:
fast framebuffer based terminal emulator for Linux
Submitter:
Sven Joachim
Date:
2023-07-22 06:45:02 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#897959#5
Date:
2018-05-05 08:22:51 UTC
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To:
Last year the fbterm terminal description was added to ncurses
upstream, and I would like to add it to the ncurses-term package,
replacing the one shipped currently in the fbterm package.

This requires coordinated uploads of ncurses and fbterm, adding a
versioned Breaks/Replaces on fbterm to ncurses-term and a versioned
dependency on ncurses-term to fbterm.

The benefit for fbterm users would be that ncurses-term is much more
likely to be installed on any remote system they might want to connect
to than fbterm, so setting TERM=fbterm has a higher chance to work in
such cases.

#897959#10
Date:
2023-07-22 06:42:30 UTC
From:
To:
Gentle ping, as there has been no reply yet.  I still think this would
be a good idea, and you do not need to run tic at build time as well
(see #1034644).

Cheers,
       Sven