[Pkg-urxvt-maintainers] Bug#645039: rxvt-unicode: re-add example about missing terminfo

[Vincent Danjean]

Package: rxvt-unicode
Version: 9.12-1
Severity: normal

  Hi,

  rxvt-unicode use by default a terminfo that is not available on all 
system (that is, lots of non-linux machine or even linux servers (with 
few gui applications installed) do not have this terminfo entry 
installed).
  When login to such a machine with ssh, you got a message such as

unknown terminal "rxvt-unicode"

  If you are not root on the target system, you have to compile your 
terminfo entry.
  Until now, I was looking into the installed documentation of 
rxvt-unicode of my local computer (where I launch rxvt-unicode) to find 
the tip, ie (from upsteam FAQ):

REMOTE=remotesystem.domain
   infocmp rxvt-unicode | ssh $REMOTE "mkdir -p .terminfo && cat >/tmp/ti && tic /tmp/ti"

  Today, I did not find this tip. Looking into the Changelog, I see the 
entry saying that it has been removed:
  * Document the fact that $TERM defaults to rxvt-unicode (not rxvt), and how
    to change this with X resources. Users do not (and should not) have to
    compile terminfo entries, so remove these from examples; ncurses-base
    provides a proper one already. (Closes: #351872)
Perhaps that "Users do not (and should not) have to..." but, in 
practice, "users have to..." if they want to use rxvt-unicode and do ssh 
on remote systems that do not have this terminfo entry installed.
  Moreover, ncurses-base does not currently provides such example ("dpkg 
-L ncurses-base" does not give me any files where I can find this info)

  I've to look into the #351872 bug report to find the initial 
reporter that give a link to the upstream FAQ. I really do not think 
that a Debian user having such an error message when doing ssh will be 
able to find the info if it does not already know what to search.
  
  So, please, reconsider your decision to remove this example and re-add 
this upstream FAQ entry in the Debian package.

  Regards,
    Vincent

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rxvt-unicode depends on:
ii  base-passwd         3.5.23    
ii  libc6               2.13-21   
ii  libfontconfig1      2.8.0-3   
ii  libgcc1             1:4.6.1-13
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.24.0-1  
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.28.6-1  
ii  libperl5.12         5.12.4-5  
ii  libx11-6            2:1.4.4-2 
ii  libxft2             2.2.0-3   
ii  libxrender1         1:0.9.6-2 
ii  ncurses-base        5.9-2     

Versions of packages rxvt-unicode recommends:
ii  ttf-dejavu           2.33-2     
ii  ttf-sazanami-gothic  20040629-12

rxvt-unicode suggests no packages.

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