Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.8-1 Severity: normal The fix for bug #317928 has the annoying side effect that aptitude refuses to perform various actions on the commandline on a dumb terminal, e.g. "aptitude install <package>" or "aptitude safe-upgrade" now fail with the error message
aptitude cannot run in ncurses mode with terminal type "dumb" This breaks running pdebuild from within Emacs, for instance. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: eterm-color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.7.8 Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20160224 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.0 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.6.2 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160213 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.0 aptitude linkage: linux-gate.so.1 (0xf770e000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0xf718a000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xf7155000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xf7130000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xf7129000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0xf7026000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xf6f20000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0xf6f07000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0xf6eed000) libboost_system.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0xf6ee8000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xf6cde000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xf6cc1000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf6b51000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xf6b02000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf6ae5000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xf692d000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xf6929000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xf6924000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libresolv.so.2 (0xf690b000) libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xf68ee000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xf68db000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0xf68b2000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0xf689f000) librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xf6895000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xf688f000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x565b3000) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.2.8-ckt4-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.7.8-1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.2.6 ii libboost-filesystem1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libboost-iostreams1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libboost-system1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libc6 2.22-1 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-11 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20160213-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.6.2-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.11.1-1 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-11 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160213-1 ii libxapian22v5 1.2.22-3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.7.8-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.47+nmu2 pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.34 -- no debconf information