Description of problem: When I SSH into a Fedora 33 machine from an Alacritty or Kitty window, I forward export TERM=alacritty/TERM=kitty. These terminfo description files are not present in ncurses-base-6.2-1.20200222.fc33, despite having been introduced to ncurses 20181027 (and updated in 20190803 and 20200118). Kitty is present in Fedora; Alacritty is not (but I am presently packaging it for inclusion in Fedora Core). Either way, I think these ought both be installed authoritatively from ncurses. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 6.2-1.20200222.fc33 How reproducible: Completely Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install ncurses-base 2. Set TERM=alacritty or TERM=kitty 3. Watch setupterm() blow up and other failures Actual results: infocmp alacritty infocmp: couldn't open terminfo file /usr/share/terminfo/a/alacritty Expected results: infocmp alacritty ought spew a bunch of terminfo codes Additional info: I'm happy to provide a patch if that will speed things along. Thanks!
They are included in the ncurses-term subpackage. Are you asking to move them to the ncurses-base subpackage?
So it is *frown* not sure how I missed that with `dnf whatprovides`. Thanks for the pointer. I'd say that alacritty and kitty are pretty common, yes, but it's totally your call as to whether they belong in ncurses-base. Feel free to close this bug if you'd rather keep them in ncurses-term.
Ok, I'll move the descriptions.