severity 562134 wishlist thanks On 2010-06-22 13:08 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-12-23 02:54 +0100, Josh Triplett wrote: > >> Package: ncurses-base >> Version: 5.7+20090803-2 >> Severity: normal >> >> The Debian installer uses bogl-bterm on the primary terminal, which uses >> TERM=bterm. Neither ncurses-base nor ncurses-term knows about this >> terminal type, so all screen-oriented programs fail to run. This >> affects the ability to run such programs from a rescue environment, >> forcing the user to switch to an alternate TTY rather than using the >> shell run by the installer; if the user doesn't know how to do that, >> they'll find themselves unable to run editors, aptitude, and other such >> programs useful when recovering a system. > > With an up to date installer (a netinst snapshot from yesterday) this > does not happen, because it copies the bterm terminfo entry to a > temporary directory under /target and sets TERMINFO accordingly. I > haven't tested the Lenny installer, though. Okay, the bug is present in the Lenny installer but was fixed shortly after the release: http://bugs.debian.org/412168. >> Please include the terminfo entry for bterm, preferably in ncurses-base, >> but if not there then in ncurses-term. > > Taking over the bterm terminfo entry from bogl-bterm in ncurses-term > would be possible, but given bogl-bterm's very low popcon I don't think > it would be very useful. Perhaps bogl-bterm should be updated to use the terminfo entry from ncurses introduced in the 20091226 patch. Outside the Debian installer bterm does not seem to be of much use. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
