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Re: Questions about bug #31625



On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 08:56:49AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
>     I was just rummaging through the critical bug list and ran across bug
> #31625, "curses-base: xterm/rxvt display messed up on exit from nvi".  Is it
> just me, or does this really need to be critical or grave?  I mean, yes, it
> is a bug which affects other software but it is hardly a security hole or
> something that would cause a loss of data.  At best it is an annoyance on par
> with joe v2.8 munging the screen in rxvt/xterm when it exits (which also
> could be an ncurses problem).  

This sounds like one of the bugs I have against X, #29822.

The problem has to do with cursor position save and restore.  There is not
a separate variable used for the "alternate screen" used by xterm (and
rxvt, I suppose).

Essentially, the problem is cosmetic.  I do not believe it should be
regarded as release-critical.  Thomas Dickey, who is handling xterm for the
XFree86 Project, apparently has a patch to correct this in 3.3.3.  Bug
report #29822 has a patch, but according to Thomas Dickey it doesn't work
correctly.

No, I do not regard that as sufficient cause to put 3.3.3 in slink.

I suggest the ncurses maintainer set the severity of 31625 to normal,
reassign it to xterm, and merge it with 29822.

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