bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: sdt@sebyte.me,  62237@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:51:27 +0100
> 
> >>>>> On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:23:28 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
> 
>     Eli> COLORTERM support was added because it reportedly helped in some
>     Eli> real-life cases.  If it turns out it gets in the way in other cases,
>     Eli> we need either find a way of detecting those problematic cases where
>     Eli> we process COLORTERM, or ask users to unset the variable if it causes
>     Eli> trouble.  I don't see how we could defer processing COLORTERM to
>     Eli> later, as knowing how many colors Emacs can work with is necessary
>     Eli> very early into startup; too many things will break or work
>     Eli> incorrectly if we defer that to later.
> 
> OK. Still sounds like etc/PROBLEMS to me :-)

I have now added a PROBLEMS entry about this issue on the emacs-29
branch, and I'm closing this bug.

Thank you both for all the useful information about the various
aspects of the issue.  I tried to use all of that in the PROBLEMS
entry.