Bug#239510: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239510

[dickey@radix.net]

                       Debian Bug report logs - #239510
>                   xterm: Reverse video specification broken
Looking closer, I see this is probably not xterm in particular, but
a change to X libraries which made the feature no longer work.  I
don't recall noticing it before - it's likely that I tested the changes
from patch #112, etc., on X11R5 and X11R6, not on XFree86 4.x for instance.

None of my "old" xterm executables have working -rv on current XFree86.
That includes the standard X11R5 and X11R6.3 versions, as well as a
rebuild corresponding to the last time I worked on -rv (which addressed
this particular area).  A quick check of current xterm code with X11R6
(Solaris 8) shows that it's still working there as well.

There might be some way to modify xterm to work around this (on my to-do list).