Bug#605065: ncurses-base: backspace key deletes forwards on the kFreeBSD console

2010-12-27 Thread Petr Salinger
The cons25-debian seems be fine for me, as it should be only local change for one release of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. The next one will not use it. Any name is fine with me as long as ncurses upstream accepts it. The next debian release will be based on FreeBSD 9.x kernel, with TERM=xterm, so IMH

Bug#605065: ncurses-base: backspace key deletes forwards on the kFreeBSD console

2010-12-23 Thread brian m. carlson
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 05:10:28PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > I don't see how this follows. People having an xterm-like terminal that > is not compatible with Debian's xterm terminfo entry can easily work > around it by setting TERM=xterm-r6 or similar when they connect to a > Debian machine. W