Bug#580946: xterm: latest upgrade broke scrolling on kFreeBSD
Package: xterm
Version: 258-1
Severity: important
User: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
Usertags: kfreebsd
This problem is fairly weird and hard to describe so bear with me.
It only affects xterm. I'm reporting this in rxvt, which doesn't suffer
from that problem.
The problem is this: the display doesn't scroll once you get to the
bottom of the screen. So for example, if you cat(1) a file that has more
lines that what you have in your terminal, you'll only see the top of
the file even though cat(1) showed the whole file.
This gives... interesting results in ncurses based programs like irssi
or screen (hint: it's just messed up).
I recently did the following upgrades:
kfreebsd-image-7-486 7.2-11 -> 7.3-1
xorg 1:7.5+5 -> 1:7.5+6
xterm 256-1 -> 258-1
(amongst ~420 others). So this is certainly a regression with one of
those. When I install xterm-256, the bug goes away, so I decided to
report this against xterm.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i686)
Kernel: kFreeBSD 7.3-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_CA.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc0.1 2.10.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libutempter0 1.1.5-3 A privileged helper for utmp/wtmp
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxft2 2.1.14-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xbitmaps 1.1.0-1 Base X bitmaps
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.5+3 X11 utilities
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn xfonts-cyrillic <none> (no description available)
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