Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > It is easy to reproduce: 'unset TERM' from the command line and then run > svn-buildpackage in such a way that errors or warnings are produced. > > tput will complain that TERM is not defined, making it difficult to read the > messages that it is supposed to be bolding. > > Upon further reflection (and perusal of the tput manpage), I'd suggest > testing the existance of tput (since svn-buildpackage doesn't depend on > ncurses-bin) and then the existance of TERM (since tput won't work without > it) and then capturing the value of "tput smso" and "tput rmso" (as suggested > by the tput manpage) to the $bold and $unbold variables respectively.
Using tput without making sure the command is available is a bug, except when this is happening: Package: ncurses-bin Essential: yes Priority: required Well now what's missing is the check for $TERM. -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
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