Bug#576695: RFP: colortest -- utilities to test color capabilities of terminal

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : colortest
  Version         : 20100406
  Upstream Author : Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@his.com>, Wolfgang Frisch <xororand@unfoog.de>
* URL             : http://www.frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/
* License         : MIT, GPL-3
  Programming Lang: Shell, Perl
  Description     : utilities to test color capabilities of terminal

Most terminals are capable of displaying 16 colors; 8 colors and 2
different brightness values, some (like xterm) can display more, even
256 colors.

The colortest package includes set of utilities to help test how many
colors a terminal can show. These color settings depend on the $TERM
environment variable and termcap entry and by adjusting or selecting
correct values, higher colors may be available. Test are for , 8, 16
and 256 colors.