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.
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.
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.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 27 development cycle. Changing version to '27'.
Andreas, any news on this?
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Isn't fixed, so moving target again...
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 30 development cycle. Changing version to '30.
(I've submitted a PR to fix this issue at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ncurses/pull-request/1 )
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.
Thanks! I've removed the file in rxvt-unicode-9-22.18: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=38668189
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.