Package: emacs24 Version: 24.3+1-1ubuntu3 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi
I am forwarding the following bug from Ubuntu's bug tracker. I'm just a volunteer triager. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs24/+bug/1285864 Reported by Jorge Morais on 2014-02-27: I tried to run dpkg-reconfigure inside emacs' terminal emulator - M-x term. It said: Unknown terminal: eterm-color Check the TERM environment variable. Also make sure that the terminal is defined in the terminfo database. Alternatively, set the TERMCAP environment variable to the desired termcap entry. debconf: whiptail output the above errors, giving up! With Google, I found that '/usr/share/terminfo/e/eterm-color' is provided by ncurses-term. I installed it, solving the problem. So the package emacs24 (I have not checked other emacs versions) should 'recommend' (or at least 'suggest') ncurses-term (or another package that solves the problem. UPDATE: This bug also occurs on a new installation of Ubuntu 15.04. Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 15.04 in Virtualbox, installed aptitude and emacs, and the only configuration I changed was the network proxy (so I did not change anything that would change TERM). The bug occurred. -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
