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Re: GNU/kFreeBSD debian-installer



On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 20:10 +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On sekmadienis 24 Spalis 2010 13:55:01 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> > Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu> writes:
> > > This issue is driving me insane. The only (which I managed to find
> > > anyway)
> > 
> > I did not test vim but when I run emacs in xterm I had to add an X
> > resource (can't remember the name now) to have backspace send ^?
> > instead of ^H as stty -a promises applications that erase = ^?.
> 
> Seems like current keyboard (mis)configuration on kFreeBSD is an RC bug 
> because it violates Debian policy 9.8 [1]. Now I only need to figure out which 
> package to report it against...

I did not know until this that having VIM not working perfectly
out-of-the-box was a Debian policy violation. Seems pretty sensible to
me however. :-)

> [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.8
> 



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