Re: Bug#2835: screen should write to terminfo

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Raul Miller writes ("Re: Bug#2835: screen should write to terminfo"):
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> Or are you saying that because /etc/termcap isn't in the *base* that
> the base *should* remove it from the system, even if the system
> administrator has installed /etc/termcap to deal with some other
> problem?  Bad move:  this would save a few keystrokes, and a few bytes
> on disk, for the one-time transition from beta to 1.1, but we'd have
> to live with this decision for a long time to come.

The situation is that the old 0.93R6 base disks included a termcap
file, but not as part of any package.

I'd suggest that the base new package should, when it is upgraded from
such an earlier version, check to see whether it looks like it wants
to remove /etc/termcap.  A good indication that it ought to is that
the termcap compatibility package isn't installed.  (It can get this
out of   dpkg --status | grep -i '^status:'

If it decides it thinks it wants to remove it it could prompt the
user, with `yes' being the default.

Ian.