Bug#300123: xterm: alt-. gives wrong signal to zsh

[Nick Croft <nicko@acay.com.au>]

Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8
Severity: important


Upgrading to xterm 4.3.0 caused the (often used) alt-. to send the wrong signal
to zsh (4.0.4 and later) in viins mode.  Alt-. is used in zsh to insert the
last argument of the previous cmd line. 

The behaviour is as expected in emacs-mode. More importantly it is as expected
in viins mode in any other shell or the console. Downgrading to 4.0.4 `fixed'
the problem.

Also the colors reverted from 16 to 8 with this upgrade.  I have since
downgraded.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.21-xfs
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  debconf                   1.4.39         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-18   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfreetype6              2.1.7-2.2      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libncurses5               5.4-4          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libxaw7                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Athena widget set library
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m

-- no debconf information