This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the ncurses library and terminfo utilities. ncurses/terminfo was originally written by Pavel Curtis and Zeyd M. Ben-Halim , and is currently held by the Free Software Foundation. Galen Hazelwood created this package, from sources found in ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ncurses-4.2.tar.gz. It borrows heavily from the original debianization put together by Bruce Perens and benifitted considerably from a lot of help from David Engel . Michael Alan Dorman arranged the beast into its present form, and put a lot of effort into making ncurses fit with Debian in the best way possible. His patches for packaging the ill-fated 4.1 release form the backbone of this version. The current maintainer is greatly in debt to his illustrious predecessors. During Galen's absence, Richard Braakman , James Troup jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk> and J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) worked on ncurses, resulting in the 1.9.9g-8.8 version that got included in Debian 2.0. Ray took the new upstream 4.2 sources and re-did most of the packaging using the current Debian tools. I (Galen) finally rejoined the debian world at this point and used ray's work for the new ncurses 4.2 packages. (Thanks for picking up the slack for me, guys. I owe you some beers.) Changes: * added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files * changed Makefile.in's to compile with -D_REENTRANT * changed configure.in to support proper compilation of debugging libraries * Fixed tget{flag,num,str} in lib_termcap ("long" strings work now) * Added /etc/terminfo directory support (ncurses/read_entry.c) * Security fixes for setuid operation (ncurses/read_{entry,termcap}.c) (based on patches courtesy of Red Hat) Changes to terminfo.src: * Removed ich(1) from linux, screen, vt320 /**************************************************************************** * Copyright (c) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * * * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including * * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, * * distribute, distribute with modifications, sublicense, and/or sell * * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included * * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS * * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. * * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, * * DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR * * OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR * * THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. * * * * Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright * * holders shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the * * sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written * * authorization. * ****************************************************************************/