old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn at freenet.de> (from Wed, 9 Dec  
2009 12:32:46 +0100):

> 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.

The practical attitude should be coordinated with ed@ (CCed), as he  
switched the console in 9-current to be an xterm, and AFAIR it does  
not support as much colors as the real xterm. Maybe there is a reason  
to not update it.

Bye,
Alexander.

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