Bug#737692: xterm: incorrect pathname in /usr/share/doc/xterm/xterm.faq.gz
On 2014-02-04 20:11:25 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:25:38AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Package: xterm
> > Version: 301-1
> > Severity: minor
> >
> > /usr/share/doc/xterm/xterm.faq.gz contains:
> >
> > ------
> > You can override this by specifying your own translations in your
> > resource file. Use the translations in
> >
> > /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
> >
> > as a guide. The relevant section of the app-default file looks like
> > ------
> >
> > but /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm doesn't exist. I suppose that
> > it should be: /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
>
> Read the sentence before: the comment was written with regard to Solaris,
> and was accurate.
There's a paragraph about Solaris, but it is not clear that the next
paragraph applies only to Solaris too. In particular, with the way
it is said, Solaris was just an example, and the previous paragraph
didn't apply to Solaris only:
Some vendors, e.g,. Sun, have added key translations which make the [...]
^^^^^^^^^
So, it is about "some vendors", not necessarily restricted to Sun.
> Aside from that - it's the packager's choice if he wants to tweak this.
But the FAQ is distributed with the Debian package, making this
unclear.
> There's insufficient standardization on the location of the
> app-defaults to make an upstream change.
You could add something like "or another OS-dependent pathname".
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