old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:29:21 +0100
Dag-Erling Sm__rgrav <des at des.no> wrote:

> Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn at freenet.de> writes:
> > Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros at 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.
> 

That's a practical attitude, but it begs the question why it hasn't
happened in the past.

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Gary Jennejohn