[Pkg-urxvt-maintainers] Bug#886465: rxvt-unicode: external 'screen' claims "Cannot find terminfo entry for 'rxvt-unicode-256color'."

[YOSHINO Yoshihito]

Package: rxvt-unicode
Version: 9.22-2, 9.22-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After upgrading rxvt-unicode to 9.22-2, its TERM value has been changed from
'rxvt-unicode' to 'rxvt-unicode-256color'.
When I log in to a Debian server without ncurses-term installed, and try to
run 'screen' inside the server, it claims
> Cannot find terminfo entry for 'rxvt-unicode-256color'
and fails to start. Also 'less' claims
> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
and works just like a dumb terminal.

Workaround: "export TERM='rxvt-unicode'" if your shell is bash
Personally I do not like this approach because I think the 'rxvt-unicode'
package should work well as 'rxvt-unicode' out of the box.

Regards,
-- 
YOSHINO Yoshihito <yy.y.ja.jp at gmail.com>

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages rxvt-unicode depends on:
ii  base-passwd               3.5.44
ii  libc6                     2.25-6
ii  libfontconfig1            2.12.6-0.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.8.1-1
ii  libgcc1                   1:7.2.0-18
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.36.11-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.54.2-5
ii  libperl5.26               5.26.1-3
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-5
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxft2                   2.3.2-1+b2
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.10-1
ii  ncurses-term              6.0+20171125-1

Versions of packages rxvt-unicode recommends:
ii  fonts-dejavu                            2.37-1
ii  fonts-vlgothic [fonts-japanese-gothic]  20141206-4

rxvt-unicode suggests no packages.

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