old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Wed Dec 9 11:29:23 UTC 2009


Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn at freenet.de> writes:
> Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros at upnet.gr> writes:
> > Why aren't these entries updated in order to match the ones that
> > ship with xterm? Am I missing something?
> Probably because xterm is under ports and termcap under src and it
> would not be easy to track changes in ports under src.
>
> The only practical way to keep termcap up to date would be for the
> committer updating the port to also check and update termcap under src.
> The problem with this is that most ports committers aren't authorized
> to make commits under src.

That's not an issue - termcaps don't change all that often.  We should
just import the new definitions.

DES
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