Bug#128941: Difficulties with monochrome display

[Phil Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

reassign 128941 libnewt-utf8-0
thanks

With potato there was a dialog explicitly asking whether you wanted mono
or colour.  Since this has been removed for woody, we should probably
add a mention of the "mono" boot argument in the release notes.

As to the actual problem at hand, it would seem to be a newt issue.  All
that dbootstrap does about this is:

        if (!bootargs.ismono)
        {
                SLtt_Use_Ansi_Colors = 1;
                unsetenv("NEWT_MONO");
        }
        else
        {
                SLtt_Use_Ansi_Colors = 0;
                setenv("NEWT_MONO","1",1);
        }

so it's down to newt to honour the NEWT_MONO variable in some
appropriate fashion.  Maybe the real bug lies in SLang; I don't know
enough about this stuff to say.