Joey Hess wrote: > > Richard Hector wrote: > > Is this something I'm doing wrong, or is it a bug in debconf or dialog > > (ignoring TERM, or not knowing how to deal with it)? > > It's probably some bug in whiptail, or dialog, or newt, or ncurses. You > can try installing whiptail (if you have only dialog installed), or > installing dialog and setting and exporting FORCE_DIALOG=1 to make > debconf use it in preference to whiptail, and see if one or the other > does better.
Thanks - it's either whiptail or newt, and I see there is already a bug filed (#86133: 276 days old), so I guess I'll leave it at that. Richard
