Package: ncurses-base Version: 6.0+20160319-1 Severity: normal The linux terminfo entry lacks the E3 capability, meaning that clear(1) does not clear the scrollback buffer. The capability was added to the linux3.0 terminfo entry, but we are not using this because it has some undesired side effects in non-Unicode locales, see the discussion in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665959.
I'm not quite sure what to do, but given that Linux kernels older than 3.0 are now unsupported, the terminfo entry for linux should certainly advertise this capability.
