Bug#981511: reportbug: Probably wrong terminal type

[Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch>]

Package: reportbug
Version: 7.9.0
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: dv@vollmann.ch

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
My EDITOR is set to 'vi', but when launching the editor from inside
reportbug, it doesn't correctly clear lines on scrolling, so that
any text from a previous longer line is still visible.
This makes editing nearly impossible.
Unlike I wrote in the subject, the terminal type seems still to
be correct (at least when I start a shell from inside the editor
it shows the correct value 'xterm').

Actually I just found that after returning from the shell,
vi behaves fine, just the original vi invocation is wrong.
With this workaround it might just be 'minor'.

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="vi"
PAGER="less"
VISUAL="vi"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/dv/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "7.9.0"
mode standard
ui text
email "dv@vollmann.ch"
no-cc
list-cc-me
smtphost reportbug.debian.org

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                2.1.18
ii  python3            3.9.1-1
ii  python3-reportbug  7.9.0
ii  sensible-utils     0.0.14

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                                            <none>
pn  debconf-utils                                         <none>
pn  debsums                                               <none>
pn  default-mta | postfix | exim4 | mail-transport-agent  <none>
pn  dlocate                                               <none>
ii  emacs-bin-common                                      1:27.1+1-3
ii  file                                                  1:5.39-3
ii  gnupg                                                 2.2.20-1
pn  python3-urwid                                         <none>
pn  reportbug-gtk                                         <none>
ii  xdg-utils                                             1.1.3-4

Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                2.1.18
ii  file               1:5.39-3
ii  python3            3.9.1-1
ii  python3-apt        2.1.7
ii  python3-debian     0.1.39
ii  python3-debianbts  3.1.0
ii  python3-requests   2.25.1+dfsg-2
ii  sensible-utils     0.0.14

python3-reportbug suggests no packages.

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