On 8 Oct 2020, at 20:14, Thorsten Glaser <t...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi *, > > I’ve prepared a patch (MR!6) that fixes this issue by switching to > isatty(2) (unless $TERM is dumb, vt100 or vt220) and tested this. > > I’d *really* prefer to upload this as 0.89 to sid, so that ncurses > then can place Breaks in the libraries, hoping that that will be > enough to magically fix the upgrade issue everywhere. > > (I’ve also pinged jrtc in IRC but keep the bugreport informed.) > > This is rather urgent as it is a complete blocker for using cowbuilder.
That's an unfair characterisation of the issue. There is a workaround for upgrading, and you can always just recreate the chroot (they *should* be expendable), it only affects *upgrades* of old chroots through the ncurses upgrade in question and won't be a problem until the next one (which I would imagine is a way away given this code has been around for several years now and this is the first time the issue has occurred). But nonetheless I am preparing an upload. Jess
