Control: reassign -1 libncursesw6 6.4+20231118-1
Control: severity -1 grave
On 2023-11-21 12:32 +0100, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> Source: ncurses
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: sher...@gmail.com
>
> I've updated to 6.4+20231118-1 version of ncurses but many
> utils are screwed, tested in konsole and linux console (vt)
>
> htop shows a lot of ^@ characters
>
> dselect (in linux console) shows also something like:
>
> ^@ is obsolete and is kept around for the time being for
>
> looks like it comes from locale.alias comment
>
> downgrading to 6.4+20231016-1 fixes the problem
Thanks for the report. This bug has been introduced in the latest
upstream patchlevel, reverting the 20231118 changes to
ncurses/base/lib_addstr.c makes it go away.
Cheers,
Sven
