bug#35247: [PATCH] Add alacritty to terminal list supporting colors

[Eike Gebauer]

By now alacritty has been packaged for Fedora for quite a while 
(https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/rust-alacritty/alacritty/) and 
is used by a relatively large community (>50k Stars on Github).

The corresponding issue on the alacritty side has sadly been closed as 
"wontfix" (https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/2210), so I 
would like to ask you to add `TERM alacritty` to dircolors.hin instead, 
as originally requested by Doron Behar.

Regards,

Eike

PS
I did not find a way to reply to the old thread from the mailing list 
archive with the correct `In-Reply-To` header, so this might not be 
threaded correctly with the original messages from 2019.

On Sat, 11 May 2019 16:57:40 +0300, Doron Behar wrote:
> Well I'm not a developer of alacritty, just a humble user. I had only
> taken the effort to investigate why I dircolors wouldn't define colors
> for me when in this terminal.
>
> Under it's installation section of the README, listed the supported
> packages for the various distros:
>
> https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty#installation
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 08:24:09AM -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote:On 
28/03/2024 17:34, bug-coreutils-request@gnu.org wrote:
> > On 12/04/19 12:20, address@hidden wrote:
> > > From: Doron Behar <address@hidden>
> > >
> > > https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
> > > ---
> > >  src/dircolors.hin | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/src/dircolors.hin b/src/dircolors.hin
> > > index 3aa445bfa..424ed5b19 100644
> > > --- a/src/dircolors.hin
> > > +++ b/src/dircolors.hin
> > > @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
> > >  # against the TERM environment variable to determine if it is 
colorizable.
> > >  TERM Eterm
> > >  TERM ansi
> > > +TERM alacritty
> > >  TERM *color*
> > >  TERM con[0-9]*x[0-9]*
> > >  TERM cons25
> > >
> >
> > I don't see this terminal packaged for Feodra at least.
> > Why does it need its own TERM ?
> > If it does, could one add 'color' to get the existing matching?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Pádraig