Debian Bug report logs - #547443
xterm: wrong backspace key behavior in xterm{16,256,88}-color

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: xterm: wrong backspace key behavior in xterm{16,256,88}-color

Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:49:07 +0200

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Package: xterm
Version: 248-1
Severity: wishlist

I've just noticed that the xterm{16,256,88}-color terminfo entries have
wrong backspace behavior, because they are derived from xterm-new rather
than xterm-debian; thus they have kbs=^H instead of kbs=\177 as it's
supposed to be in Debian.

Most applications do not care about that, but the ne¹ editor is picky
and deletes forward instead of backward when you hit the backspace key.
I'm going to correct this in ncurses², but as the xterm.ti in ncurses is
just a gunzipped copy of /usr/share/doc/xterm/xterm.terminfo.gz, it
would be nice if we could keep the patches in sync.

Attached is a patch for debian/patches/900_debian_xterm.diff, it is a
bit noisy because "quilt refresh" had to update some fuzzy lines in
unrelated files.

¹ http://packages.debian.org/sid/ne
² http://git.debian.org/?p=users/joachim-guest/ncurses.git;a=commit;h=db203a5a4d30f9b3effaf746c38b8bad0aa5b5f8

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Message #10 received at 547443@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>

To: 547443@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 547443-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: re: #547443 xterm: wrong backspace key behavior in xterm{16,256,88}-color

Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:00:44 -0400

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Shouldn't this be reassigned to ncurses-base?
That's where it would be applied.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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Message #18 received at 547443@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>

To: dickey@his.com

Cc: 547443@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#547443: #547443 xterm: wrong backspace key behavior in xterm{16,256,88}-color

Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:37:31 +0200

On 2010-04-09 11:00 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> Shouldn't this be reassigned to ncurses-base?
> That's where it would be applied.

It is already applied in ncurses-base, but I would like to have it in
xterm as well so that it does not get lost when we (ncurses maintainers)
sync future versions.

Sven

Message #25 received at 547443-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>

To: 547443-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#547443: fixed in xterm 258-1

Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 12:19:08 +0000

Source: xterm
Source-Version: 258-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xterm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

xterm_258-1.diff.gz
  to main/x/xterm/xterm_258-1.diff.gz
xterm_258-1.dsc
  to main/x/xterm/xterm_258-1.dsc
xterm_258-1_amd64.deb
  to main/x/xterm/xterm_258-1_amd64.deb
xterm_258.orig.tar.gz
  to main/x/xterm/xterm_258.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 547443@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> (supplier of updated xterm package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 13:48:12 +0200
Source: xterm
Binary: xterm
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 258-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Description: 
 xterm      - X terminal emulator
Closes: 547443 572928
Changes: 
 xterm (258-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * terminfo: derive xterm{16,256,88}-color from xterm-debian (patch by Sven
     Joachim), closes: #547443.
   * New upstream release
     + modify AllocateTermColor() to separate initialization from control
       sequences, fixing problem from patch #254 changes where enabling
       allowSendEvents resource prevents setting cursor color on command-line
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