Package: xterm
Version: 222-1
Severity: important
After upgrading from 210-3.1 to 222-1 ncurses programs started
displaying rendering artifacts (see attachment for an example). I
checked this bug with mc, elinks, the debconf dialog frontend, moc, etc.
This seems to be related to changes in the terminfo entry shipped with
xterm, but this is just my guess. Quoting from the upstream changelog:
Patch #216 - 2006/8/3
- several changes to terminfo:
* incorporate some minor changes from ncurses to help keep these
synchronized:
2005-02-26
modify sgr/sgr0 in xterm-new to improve tgetent's derived
"me".
2006-02-18
remove ncv flag from xterm-16color
2006-06-24
improve xterm-256color by combining the 16-color setaf/setab
strings with SGR 48, and cancelling the setf/setb strings.
* use extended function-key definitions for xterm-sun, xterm-sco
entries.
* add terminfo building-blocks corresponding to the
modifyFunctionKeys and modifyCursorKeys resources.
Maybe the ncurses entry for xterm should be updated? Note, however,
that I compiled the terminfo entry shipped with xterm, and it still
didn't fix the problem.
Thanks,
-=[david]=-
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-3 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 1:1.0.2-4 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xbitmaps 1.0.1-2 Base X bitmaps
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii xutils 1:7.1.ds.3-1 X Window System utility programs
-- no debconf information
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