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[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 15:42:05 +0100, Martin Guy via arch-general wrote:
>GNU or BSD or something else?

Hi,

you could take a look at the PKGBUILD, see
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=termcap .

>I also see it's in local/ - does that mean it's been installed locally
>and is a version different from the Arch repository?

"local" indeed describes a locally installed package that isn't
available by official repositories. IOW it's not a different version,
there is no such package provided by official Arch repositories.

At the right side of https://www.archlinux.org/ there is a package
search.

It's the same for the Arch User Repository (AUR), see
https://aur.archlinux.org/ ->
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=termcap ->
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/termcap/

"local" not necessarily means it was build from AUR, perhaps it was
moved from the official repositories to AUR, or somebody build her own
package.

I can't comment the quality of this package, AUR package could be plain
crap as well as perfectly good, however, the proper mailing list for
AUR is https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general . In this case
you probably better want to add a comment to
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/termcap/ .

Regards,
Ralf