Re: $TERM size (was: Re: New release?)

[Carsten Mattner]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Axel Beckert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 07:52:44PM +0200, Carsten Mattner wrote:
>> > Also I think if we change that value, it should be changed with more
>> > farsight and not only extended by 4 bytes. The Debian packagedoubled
>> > the size and uses 40 bytes for that.
>> >
>> > Full patch at
>> > http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9/50increase-max-TERM-length.patch
>>
>> Oh I see and do you agree that a final patch to be included should
>> define the constant once and reuse that?
>
> Definitely. Debian's patch to allow longer user names actually does
> that already IIRC.

4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9/50increase-max-TERM-length.patch does not.