[Pkg-urxvt-maintainers] [Bug 872838] Re: invalid exported TERM value: rxvt-256color instead of rxvt-unicode

[Olivier Mengué]

The "rxvt-unicode" is not the good one either because it looks like urxvt has been compiled with 256 colors support.
So there are 2 problems:
- urxvt must export TERM=rxvt-unicode-256color
- an rxvt-unicode-256color terminfo entry should be installed: either directly by bundling it in the package, or better, indirectly by marking a package dependency on an other package that would provide it (ncurses-term?).

** Summary changed:

- invalid exported TERM value: rxvt-256color instead of rxvt-unicode
+ invalid exported TERM value: rxvt-256color instead of rxvt-unicode-256color

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Title:
  invalid exported TERM value: rxvt-256color instead of rxvt-unicode-
  256color

Status in “rxvt-unicode” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The TERM value set by urxvt in Ubuntu 11.04 is "rxvt-256color".
  The problem is that this TERM name does not match any terminfo value on the system: no /lib/terminfo/r/rxvt-256color file.
  However there is /lib/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode installed by the ncurses-base package.

  This is rxvt-unicode 9.09-3 and ncurses 5.7+20101128-1.

  According to support in the #urxvt-unicode IRC channel on Freenode,
  the standard value set by the vanilla urxvt is either rxvt-unicode or
  rxvt-unicode-256color. Is there a reason why the default value has
  been changed?

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