Bug#400859: xterm: Emacs and XEmacs don't use 256 colors

[Glenn Ammons <ammons@us.ibm.com>]

Package: xterm
Version: 222-1
Severity: normal

Emacs and XEmacs don't recognize that an xterm supports 256 colors,
even when TERM is set to "xterm-256color".  I'm not sure if this is a
bug in "xterm", "ncurses-term", or the Emacs/XEmacs packages.  To
reproduce the bug:

    xterm% TERM=xterm-256color xemacs -nw

and then, from within XEmacs (or Emacs):

    M-x list-colors-display

Only 16 colors are displayed.  I verified that the xterm supports 256
colors by running the "256colors2.pl" script that is included with the
source package.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 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

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