On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 10:23:32AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Package: ncurses-base > Version: 6.0+20160319-1 > Severity: normal > > The linux terminfo entry lacks the E3 capability, meaning that > clear(1) does not clear the scrollback buffer. The capability was added > to the linux3.0 terminfo entry, but we are not using this because it has > some undesired side effects in non-Unicode locales, see the discussion > in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665959. > > I'm not quite sure what to do, but given that Linux kernels older than > 3.0 are now unsupported, the terminfo entry for linux should certainly > advertise this capability. comparing linux to linux3.0. comparing booleans. comparing numbers. comparing strings. rmacs: '\E[10m', '^O'. sgr: '\E[0;10%?%p1%t;7%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p3%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p5%t;2%;%?%p6%t;1%;%?%p9%t;11%;m', '\E[0;10%?%p1%t;7%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p3%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p5%t;2%;%?%p6%t;1%;m%?%p9%t\016%e\017%;'. sgr0: '\E[0;10m', '\E[m\017'. smacs: '\E[11m', '^N'. E3: NULL, '\E[3J'.
E3 is (as far as I know) harmless; the other features were the reason for reverting. When I checked a year or two ago, those were still relying on an unofficial patch (since the entire concept of SI/SO offends UTF-8 purists), and could be absent from various kernels. I'll see what I can learn, but adding E3 to "linux" might be the proper change. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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