Debian bug report logs - #1329 ncurses manpages - two infelicities Package: ncurses-runtime, ncurses-developer ; Reported by: Ian Jackson ; 54 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From cus.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Thu Sep 7 05:16:06 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sqfsE-000EbhC; Thu, 7 Sep 95 05:16 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA08024 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 7 Sep 1995 05:15:50 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0sqfs3-000C0SC; Thu, 7 Sep 95 13:15 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Wed, 6 Sep 95 20:20 BST Message-Id: Date: Wed, 6 Sep 95 20:20 BST From: Ian Jackson To: Debian bugs submission address 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Ian Jackson : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1329 ; Package ncurses-runtime, ncurses-developer . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov