Bug 1430935

Summary: ncurses-base is missing rxvt-unicode-256color terminfo
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Robbie Harwood <rharwood>
Component: ncursesAssignee: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
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Last Closed: 2019-10-31 09:10:10 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Robbie Harwood 2017-03-09 22:31:42 UTC
ncurses-base includes several other rxvt variants, but not this one.  It is a reasonably common emulator, and having to drag in the terminal itself (including all dependencies) is not great for headless systems.  Other distros (e.g., Debian) include this terminfo in their bundle.

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2017-03-10 10:37:23 UTC
This will require coordination with the rxvt-unicode package to avoid file conflict. Andreas, what do you think?

The best way to fix this would probably be the rxvt-unicode upstream getting the entries accepted in the ncurses distribution, so we and other distributions don't have to maintain such patches forever.

Comment 2 Andreas Bierfert 2017-03-10 16:31:51 UTC
That would be optimal, especially if you work on different linux flavors... I will see what upstream says. If this won't happen (soon) we can coordinate to add the file to ncurses.

Comment 3 Jan Kurik 2017-08-15 08:05:26 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 27 development cycle.
Changing version to '27'.

Comment 4 Miroslav Lichvar 2018-02-27 10:35:55 UTC
Andreas, any news on this?

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Comment 6 Robbie Harwood 2018-11-27 17:42:03 UTC
Isn't fixed, so moving target again...

Comment 7 Ben Cotton 2019-02-19 17:11:40 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 30 development cycle.
Changing version to '30.

Comment 8 Robbie Harwood 2019-10-25 17:58:32 UTC
(I've submitted a PR to fix this issue at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ncurses/pull-request/1 )

Comment 9 Miroslav Lichvar 2019-10-29 11:42:31 UTC
I've pushed your change and added a conflict with rxvt-unicode < 9.22-18. Please remove the file in 9.22-18 and let me know when it's built, so I can build the ncurses package.

Comment 10 Robbie Harwood 2019-10-30 18:51:29 UTC
Thanks!  I've removed the file in rxvt-unicode-9-22.18: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=38668189

Comment 11 Miroslav Lichvar 2019-10-31 09:10:10 UTC
Hm, I didn't notice there was briefly an rxvt-unicode-terminfo subpackage. I think we need to obsolete it in ncurses-base to remove it on upgrade. Let's see if that works.