Bug#509919: ncurses-base: the tabset directory in compiled terminal descriptions is incorrect

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2008-12-27 19:15 +0100, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> Package: ncurses-base
> Version: 5.7+20081213-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Reviewing Ubuntu #200773, which reports this problem,
> I checked my Debian/testing and see that infocmp vt220 shows
>
> 	if=/etc/tabset/vt100,
>
> That directory does not exist.

True.  I haven't analyzed all the details yet, but the problem appears
to be that ncurses is configured with
"--with-default-terminfo-dir=/etc/terminfo", and your misc/gen_edit.sh
script changes the location of the tabset directory to /etc/tabset then.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
       Sven