color broken after slink upgrade

[Ryan Yeske <rcyeske@sfu.ca>]

I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my hamm system to upgrade to
slink.  Everything worked smoothly, except now I notice that I am not
getting color in a few places that I used to, namely aalib stuff and
nethack.  Where there was color before in these programs I simply get
inverse text.  ls --color still works, as does mutt, dselect, and mc.
Note that I am not running X windows, this is all on the plain text
console.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what might have happened here?  I
assume its related to upgrading ncurses and or slang.

Thanks,
rcy