Serious bug in 4.9-RELEASE

[Erik Trulsson]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:50:57PM -0800, Chris Pressey wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:17:26 +0100
> Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:
> 
> > I am quite certain it is a local problem at your end.
> 
> Seems odd that it would be affecting my system as well, then :)

Alright, so I was mistaken.  It is not a local problem.

> 
> > What value is your TERM environment variable set to?
> 
> # echo $TERM
> xterm
> 
> Note that the problem doesn't show up for me under cons25.

Yeah, I noticed.  Eventually.

> 
> The md5 hash of my /usr/share/misc/termcap is identical to the one given
> in the previous message.
> 
> I have no idea.

It seems that the termcap entry for xterm was substantially changed
between 4.8-release and 4.9-release.
One change was the removal of of the "bs" capability which
/usr/games/hack requires.  That capability is documented as being
obsolete and that programs shouldn't depend on it, so it seems that the
bug is in /usr/games/hack rather than termcap.
Most of the programs in /usr/games are old and hasn't been updated in a
long while, so it isn't exactly surprising that things break eventually
as the rest of the system changes.
(The termcap code in /usr/games/hack doesn't seem to have been changed
since it was first imported back in 1994.)


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Erik Trulsson
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