Bug#783156: ITP: libtermkey -- library for processing keyboard input from terminal-based programs

[James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>

* Package name    : libtermkey
  Version         : 0.17
  Upstream Author : Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
* URL             : http://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libtermkey/
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : library for processing keyboard input from terminal-based programs

  This library allows easy processing of keyboard entry from
  terminal-based programs. It handles all the necessary logic to recognise
  special keys, UTF-8 combining, and so on, with a simple interface.

why is this package useful/relevant? is it a dependency for another
package?
- Dependency for Neovim

if there are other packages providing similar functionality, how does it
compare?
- Quoting from upstream in regard to a comparison with terminfo

  This library uses the terminfo database for the terminal type given by
  $TERM as a first attempt to convert raw incoming bytes into symbolic
  keypress events. If this translation fails, and the terminal type is
  known to be one that uses xterm's generic CSI scheme for representing
  modified keypresses (e.g. xterm), then the sequence is interpreted
  according to xterm's rules. Finally, if all of these fail, the raw
  bytes will be presented as they are.

how do you plan to maintain it?
- collab-maint git, co-maintainers welcome