Comment 3 for bug 190852

Reassigning to ncurses from screen, as proper terminfo description files is that package's responsibility, and not screen's (except things like /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen, but I don't know that those other screen ones are part of the screen package proper).

The offending bit is probably "kb=^H"; many folks prefer that "kb=^?", though which is appropriate may depend on the user's configuration. Best may be to ensure they're undefined ("kb=", or no kb definition) so that applications instead use whatever stty (termios) says to use.

Note that "kb" is a termcap name; in the real terminfo files it'd appear as "kbs".

My setup on Intrepid has "kb=\177" for xterm, so possibly this has been fixed? I don't know what the original user had for xterm, though, as only "screen.xterm" and such are shown (I don't have those). So I'm leaving as "incomplete".

Note that tricks like "TERM=screen screen" are a bad idea. It may fix one problem and cause several other, subtler ones.