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Bug#6710; Package ncurses-base.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgMichael Alan Dorman  Subject: Bug#6710: ncurses-base insufficient Reply-To: Nathan Myers , 6710@bugs.debian.org Resent-From: Nathan Myers Orignal-Sender: ncm@generic.yamato.com Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Michael Alan Dorman Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:48:05 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj@debian.org X-Debian-PR-Package: ncurses-base X-Debian-PR-Keywords: X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org Received: via spool by bugs@bugs.debian.org id=B.85375668127007 (code B ref -1); Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:48:05 GMT Sender: ncm@generic.yamato.com Message-ID: <32E343F2.669FEBCB@cantrip.org> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 02:07:46 -0800 From: Nathan Myers Organization: www.cantrip.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: submit@bugs.debian.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Package: ncurses-base Version: 1.9.9e-1 ncurses-base includes a minimal set of terminal definitions, but it's a little too minimal. It should have "xterms" in there as well.   Acknowledgement sent to Nathan Myers <ncm@cantrip.org>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>.   -t  From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Ian Jackson) To: Nathan Myers Subject: Bug#6710: Acknowledgement (was: ncurses-base insufficient) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <32E343F2.669FEBCB@cantrip.org> References: <32E343F2.669FEBCB@cantrip.org> Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): Michael Alan Dorman If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to 6710@bugs.debian.org (and *not* to bugs@bugs.debian.org). Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, Debian bug tracking system)   Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 20 Jan 1997 10:38:01 +0000 Received: (qmail 27005 invoked from network); 20 Jan 1997 10:38:00 -0000 Received: from proxy3.ba.best.com (root@206.184.139.14) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 20 Jan 1997 10:38:00 -0000 Received: from shellx.best.com (shellx.best.com [206.86.0.11]) by proxy3.ba.best.com (8.8.4/8.8.3) with ESMTP id CAA27803 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 02:10:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from generic.yamato.com (generic.yamato.com [205.149.175.14]) by shellx.best.com (8.8.4/8.8.3) with ESMTP id CAA15159 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 02:08:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mill (ncm@r1p9.directcon.net [206.170.184.29]) by generic.yamato.com (8.8.0/8.7) with SMTP id CAA05688 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 02:08:06 -0800 (PST) Sender: ncm@generic.yamato.com Message-ID: <32E343F2.669FEBCB@cantrip.org> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 02:07:46 -0800 From: Nathan Myers Organization: www.cantrip.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: ncurses-base insufficient Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Package: ncurses-base Version: 1.9.9e-1 ncurses-base includes a minimal set of terminal definitions, but it's a little too minimal. It should have "xterms" in there as well.   Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>:
Bug#6710; Package ncurses-base.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgMichael Alan Dorman  Subject: Bug#6710: ncurses-base insufficient Reply-To: "Brian C. White" , 6710@bugs.debian.org Resent-From: "Brian C. White" Orignal-Sender: bcwhite Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Michael Alan Dorman Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:48:03 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj@debian.org X-Debian-PR-Package: ncurses-base X-Debian-PR-Keywords: X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org Received: via spool by 6710-bugs@bugs.debian.org id=B6710.85377448629030 (code B ref 6710); Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:48:03 GMT Sender: bcwhite Message-ID: <32E38EF5.4215A32E@verisim.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:27:49 -0500 From: "Brian C. White" Organization: Verisim, Inc. http://www.verisim.com/ X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Myers , 6710@bugs.debian.org References: <32E343F2.669FEBCB@cantrip.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > ncurses-base includes a minimal set of terminal definitions, > but it's a little too minimal. It should have "xterms" in > there as well. It has "xterm". What is "xterms"? Brian ( bcwhite@verisim.com ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the difference between theory and practice is less in theory than in practice   Acknowledgement sent to "Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>.   -t  From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Ian Jackson) To: "Brian C. White" Subject: Bug#6710: Info received (was Bug#6710: ncurses-base insufficient) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <32E38EF5.4215A32E@verisim.com> References: <32E38EF5.4215A32E@verisim.com> Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developer(s) and to the developers' mailing list to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): Michael Alan Dorman If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please send it to 6710@bugs.debian.org, as before. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, Debian bug tracking system)   Received: (at 6710) by bugs.debian.org; 20 Jan 1997 15:34:46 +0000 Received: (qmail 29018 invoked from network); 20 Jan 1997 15:34:45 -0000 Received: from gatekeeper.verisim.com (206.51.251.97) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 20 Jan 1997 15:34:45 -0000 Received: from callandor ([192.168.1.3]) by gatekeeper.verisim.com with smtp id m0vmLhB-000H6GC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:31:37 -0500 (EST) Sender: bcwhite Message-ID: <32E38EF5.4215A32E@verisim.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:27:49 -0500 From: "Brian C. White" Organization: Verisim, Inc. http://www.verisim.com/ X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Myers , 6710@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#6710: ncurses-base insufficient References: <32E343F2.669FEBCB@cantrip.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > ncurses-base includes a minimal set of terminal definitions, > but it's a little too minimal. It should have "xterms" in > there as well. It has "xterm". What is "xterms"? Brian ( bcwhite@verisim.com ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the difference between theory and practice is less in theory than in practice   Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>:
Bug#6710; Package ncurses-base.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgMichael Alan Dorman  Subject: Bug#6710: ncurses-base insufficient Reply-To: ncm@cantrip.org (Nathan Myers), 6710@bugs.debian.org Resent-From: ncm@cantrip.org (Nathan Myers) Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Michael Alan Dorman Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 05:03:05 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj@debian.org X-Debian-PR-Package: ncurses-base X-Debian-PR-Keywords: X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org Received: via spool by 6710-bugs@bugs.debian.org id=B6710.85382270227905 (code B ref 6710); Tue, 21 Jan 1997 05:03:05 GMT Message-Id: Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:55:03 -0800 (PST) From: ncm@cantrip.org (Nathan Myers) To: 6710@bugs.debian.org, bcwhite@verisim.com, ncm@cantrip.org > Nathan Myers : >> ncurses-base includes a minimal set of terminal definitions, >> but it's a little too minimal. It should have "xterms" in >> there as well. Brian C. White : > It has "xterm". What is "xterms"? xterms is "standard xterm", meaning a fixed 80x24 window. This is mostly used with older programs that can't cope with a variable-size window, and when using rlogin to connect to or from other machines on a network which are full of such programs. The problem that "xterms" solves is that some programs used in an xterm window would otherwise believe that the saveLines are part of the visible screen, and format accordingly. The "xterms" designation hides the saveLines from them. Nathan Myers ncm@cantrip.org   Acknowledgement sent to ncm@cantrip.org (Nathan Myers):
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>.   -t  From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Ian Jackson) To: ncm@cantrip.org (Nathan Myers) Subject: Bug#6710: Info received (was Bug#6710: ncurses-base insufficient) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developer(s) and to the developers' mailing list to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): Michael Alan Dorman If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please send it to 6710@bugs.debian.org, as before. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, Debian bug tracking system)   Received: (at 6710) by bugs.debian.org; 21 Jan 1997 04:58:22 +0000 Received: (qmail 27902 invoked from network); 21 Jan 1997 04:58:19 -0000 Received: from r1p12.directcon.net (HELO mill) (root@206.170.184.32) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 21 Jan 1997 04:58:18 -0000 Received: by mill id m0vmYEh-0002ndC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:55:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:55:03 -0800 (PST) From: ncm@cantrip.org (Nathan Myers) To: 6710@bugs.debian.org, bcwhite@verisim.com, ncm@cantrip.org Subject: Re: Bug#6710: ncurses-base insufficient > Nathan Myers : >> ncurses-base includes a minimal set of terminal definitions, >> but it's a little too minimal. It should have "xterms" in >> there as well. Brian C. White : > It has "xterm". What is "xterms"? xterms is "standard xterm", meaning a fixed 80x24 window. This is mostly used with older programs that can't cope with a variable-size window, and when using rlogin to connect to or from other machines on a network which are full of such programs. The problem that "xterms" solves is that some programs used in an xterm window would otherwise believe that the saveLines are part of the visible screen, and format accordingly. The "xterms" designation hides the saveLines from them. Nathan Myers ncm@cantrip.org   Severity set to `wishlist'. Request was from Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net> to control@bugs.debian.org.   Received: (at control) by bugs.debian.org; 14 Oct 1997 23:09:58 +0000 Received: (qmail 2942 invoked from network); 14 Oct 1997 23:09:57 -0000 Received: from mailmx.micron.net (mailmx.micron.net@198.60.253.39) by 205.229.104.5 with SMTP; 14 Oct 1997 23:09:57 -0000 Received: from micron.net (cboi132p06.boi.micron.net [207.70.43.24]) by mailmx.micron.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA10620 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 17:11:18 -0600 (MDT) Sender: galen@micron.net Message-ID: <3443FC16.86AB0BE4@micron.net> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 17:11:18 -0600 From: Galen Hazelwood X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.31 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: control@bugs.debian.org Subject: (no subject) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit severity 3036 wishlist severity 3904 wishlist severity 5357 wishlist severity 6710 wishlist severity 10206 wishlist   Information forwarded to Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>:
Bug#6710; Package ncurses-base.   Galen Hazelwood  Subject: Bug#6710: Old bugs need to be looked at Reply-To: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer), 6710-maintonly@bugs.debian.org Resent-From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer) Resent-To: Galen Hazelwood Resent-Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 11:36:51 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj@debian.org X-Debian-PR-Message: report 6710 X-Debian-PR-Package: ncurses-base X-Debian-PR-Keywords: X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org Received: via spool by 6710-maintonly@bugs.debian.org id=M6710.8863327064134 (code M ref 6710); Sun, 01 Feb 1998 11:36:51 GMT Message-Id: Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:29:32 +0100 (CET) From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer) To: 6710-maintonly@bugs.debian.org This is an automated message sent to all bugs older than one year. This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it. If it has already been fixed, please close it. If you have problems fixing it or if you don't have the time to fix it, please ask the people on debian-devel@lists.debian.org for help, so that at least the oldest bugs can be solved before Debian 2.0 is released. Remco Blaakmeer   Acknowledgement sent to remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer):
Extra info received and forwarded to maintainer. Copy sent to Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>.   -t  From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Ian Jackson) To: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer) Subject: Bug#6710: Info received for maintainer only (was Old bugs need to be looked at) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Debian-PR-Message: ack-info 6710 Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developer(s) (but not to the mailing list) to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): Galen Hazelwood If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please send it to 6710-maintonly@bugs.debian.org, as before. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (administrator, Debian bugs database)   Received: (at 6710-maintonly) by bugs.debian.org; 1 Feb 1998 11:31:46 +0000 Received: (qmail 4131 invoked by uid 71); 1 Feb 1998 11:31:45 -0000 Received: from cal011205.student.utwente.nl (HELO blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl) (root@130.89.222.95) by debian.novare.net with SMTP; 1 Feb 1998 11:31:45 -0000 Received: by blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl id m0xyxae-0013wbC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.100 1997-Dec-8 #2); Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:29:32 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:29:32 +0100 (CET) From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer) To: 6710-maintonly@bugs.debian.org Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at This is an automated message sent to all bugs older than one year. This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it. If it has already been fixed, please close it. If you have problems fixing it or if you don't have the time to fix it, please ask the people on debian-devel@lists.debian.org for help, so that at least the oldest bugs can be solved before Debian 2.0 is released. Remco Blaakmeer   Bug closed, send any further explanations to Nathan Myers <ncm@cantrip.org> Request was from Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org.   Received: (at control) by bugs.debian.org; 16 Mar 2001 23:30:44 +0000 From drow@nevyn.them.org Fri Mar 16 17:30:44 2001 Return-path: Received: from nevyn.res.cmu.edu (nevyn.them.org) [128.2.145.225] (mail) by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 14e3gC-0005h5-00; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:30:44 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14e3fw-0000LH-00 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:30:28 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:30:28 -0500 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: control@bugs.debian.org Subject: ncurses: insane bug cleanup go! Message-ID: <20010316183028.A1243@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i Delivered-To: control@bugs.debian.org # Some obscure bug in ncurses3.4 upgrades from rex to hamm... close 17915 # Long-vanished, mysterious bug in tic close 27607 # ncurses4's doc directory symlink - long fixed close 29023 # Can not reproduce, and very old close 30006 # Fixed in current ncurses-bin close 31229 # window.3 is correct now close 34384 # __register_frame_info upgrade issue - we depend on glibc2.2 now, this # won't happen (not the same way at least). close 34658 # This sounds like a good idea, but not a bug. severity 40325 wishlist merge 34182 40325 merge 34182 65683 # Fixed in libncurses5-dev's man pages close 46325 close 47005 # libncurses4-dev doesn't even have most of the documentation in question # any more. close 53282 # The man page attr(3ncurses) is correct now. close 53962 # Not a bug. close 54645 # We're back to providing ncurses-base, for now at least. close 54702 # Not true any more - potato/powerpc still has messed up libncurses4, but # no libncurses4-dev at all, and everything else is ok. close 54837 # He even says they're the same bug... merge libncurses4 and libncurses5 # bugs. merge 54659 55091 # The symlink to /etc/terminfo/x/xterm-color is share in current packages close 55996 # This bug no longer exists; mutt can bind the insert key. close 56083 # Closed in ncurses5 - I'd always wondered what caused this bug... close 56789 # Closed by the evil manpage witchery close 57660 close 57212 # Default colors work fine now. close 57343 # Fairly sure this works correctly now. Hybrid barely-slink systems # are not that easy to find for testing on now :) close 57489 # This looks to be the same as 55996 above. close 58140 # Gone in current curses.h close 61088 # I disagree. xterms is an exotic terminfo, because it isn't used by Debian # xterm; it's fine where it is. close 6710 # termcap-compat is so gone, and I can't reproduce this. close 3830 # Whatis parse passes for all manpages now close 86341 close 28827 # Wow, was I ever that out of it? close 30382 # This symlink comes from termcap-compat. close 56060 # No future development on libncurses4 while it's in oldlibs... # I'd rather just let it die. Very little still uses it, even # commercially. close 56513 ### # Fixed bugs in incorporated NMUs close 20291 close 24996 close 30109 close 31375 close 35422 close 42357 close 46000 close 46685 close 47381 close 50756 close 56057 # That's not fixed! At least, it's not clear that it is. severity 55263 normal thanks -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team "I am croutons!"