Re: debconf (dialog?) in mono

[Richard Hector <rhector@actrix.gen.nz>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> Richard Hector wrote:
> > Is this something I'm doing wrong, or is it a bug in debconf or dialog
> > (ignoring TERM, or not knowing how to deal with it)?
> 
> It's probably some bug in whiptail, or dialog, or newt, or ncurses. You
> can try installing whiptail (if you have only dialog installed), or
> installing dialog and setting and exporting FORCE_DIALOG=1 to make
> debconf use it in preference to whiptail, and see if one or the other
> does better.

Thanks - it's either whiptail or newt, and I see there is already a bug
filed (#86133: 276 days old), so I guess I'll leave it at that.

Richard