Bug#747347: Dropped the obsolete vte termcap home/end patch.

Egmont Koblinger egmont at gmail.com
Tue May 20 09:34:10 UTC 2014


Hi Andreas,

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> wrote:

> If you're interested, it would be very welcome if you could see if
> the 25_optional-ncurses.patch could be merged upstream.
> See http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/vte3/debian/patches/

I'm happy to tell you that VTE master (to be 0.38) has entirely
dropped its ncurses dependency :)

We abandoned the idea that "VTE does whatever is written in the
terminfo file".  It was a cool sounding idea, but just didn't work in
practice.  We're back to what every other terminal emulator does: "VTE
tries to do what xterm does, which is by the way more or less
described by the 'xterm' terminfo entry."

have a nice day,
egmont



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