Package: whiptail Version: 0.52.19-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
Whiptail fails to allocate good space for tag and item strings in long strings. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: The window size in the console: $ resize COLUMNS=100; LINES=37; export COLUMNS LINES; This command for whiptail does not show good strings: whiptail --backtitle 'TEST' --title 'TEST' --menu 'MODE' 0 0 0 \ runA 'RunA' \ runB 'RunB' \ runC 'RunC01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012' \ 2> /tmp/output.txt However, if making the strings shorter, the result is good: whiptail --backtitle 'TEST' --title 'TEST' --menu 'MODE' 0 0 0 \ runA 'RunA' \ runB 'RunB' \ runC 'RunC0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901' \ 2> /tmp/output.txt After reporting to upstream (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353792), a patch is available from upstream: https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/newt.git/commit/?id=10bbfd2837eb5ad87416ed2a648231a2a9b7c6fc I have tested it and confirmed it works well. Since newt is not released very often, could you please apply this patch ? Thank you very much. Steven -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages whiptail depends on: ii libc6 2.24-8 ii libnewt0.52 0.52.19-1 ii libpopt0 1.16-10 ii libslang2 2.3.1-5 whiptail recommends no packages. whiptail suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
