Debian bug report logs - #1329
ncurses manpages - two infelicities

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From: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
To: Debian bugs submission address <debian-bugs@pixar.com>
Subject: ncurses manpages - two infelicities

Package: ncurses-runtime, ncurses-developer
Version: 1.9.3-1

The capability table in terminfo(5) is badly formatted:
        Variable             Cap-     I.                       Description
        Booleans             name    Code
auto_left_margin,          bw   bw      cub1 wraps from column 0 to last
                                            column
auto_right_margin,        am    am      Terminal has automatic margins
back_color_erase,          bce  ut      screen erased with background color
can_change,              ccc    cc      terminal can re-define existing colors
ceol_standout_glitch,   xhp     xs      Standout not erased by overwriting
                                            (hp)
(It continues in the same vein).

ncurses(3ncurses) contains the following:
       Windows are referred to by variables declared as WINDOW *.
       These   data  structures  are  manipulated  with  routines
       described on 3X pages (whose names begin "").  Among which
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
       the  most basic routines are move and addch.  More general
       versions of these routines are included with names  begin-
       ning  with  w, allowing the user to specify a window.  The
       routines not beginning with w affect stdscr.)

This does not reflect the manpage arrangement in Debian - we have the
manpages as foo(3ncurses) rather than curs_foo(3x).

Ian.