Re: bin/39883 (tput support for setaf terminfo sequence is broken)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/39883; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: jnemeth%NetBSD.org@localhost, mikel%mikelward.com@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/39883 (tput support for setaf terminfo sequence is broken)
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:42:26 +0000

 On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:10:26PM +0000, jnemeth%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
  > Just because something is fixed in -current does not mean it doesn't need
  > to be fixed on the branches.  PRs shouldn't be closed until the problem
  > is fixed on all relevant branches or it is determined that it is too
  > difficult.
 
 This is very true; however, I don't think terminfo is going to be
 pulled up to -5 (let alone -4) and it's really not practical to try to
 handle terminfo codes some other way there. Even if someone wanted to
 spend time writing a translation table for terminfo capabilities,
 realistically they wouldn't be likely to ever get around to it.
 
 I suppose tput should exit 1 when asked for an unknown capability
 though; would fixing that be sufficient?
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost