Bug#239510: xterm: Reverse video specification broken

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0-7
Severity: normal

Hello,

xterm, on startup, always displays black text on a white background.
That is, the following three commands do the exact same thing:

xterm
xterm -rv
xterm +rv

Also, specifying XTerm*reverseVideo: true does not alter the startup
colors.

However, selecting reverse video from the middle-mouse-button menu will
toggle the colors.

I'm somewhat puzzled.

-- John

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libexpat1                   1.95.6-8     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1              2.2.2-1      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.1.7-2      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libice6                     4.3.0-7      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-2        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                      4.3.0-7      X Window System Session Management
ii  libxaw7                     4.3.0-7      X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6                    4.3.0-7      X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft2                     2.1.2-6      FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                     4.3.0-7      X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxpm4                     4.3.0-7      X pixmap library
ii  libxrender1                 0.8.3-7      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                      4.3.0-7      X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs                       4.3.0-7      X Window System client libraries m
ii  xlibs-data                  4.3.0-7      X Window System client data

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