Your message dated Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:42:06 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1121191: fixed in ncurses 6.5+20251123-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #1121191,
regarding ncurses: API/ABI break for tigetflag return value on unsigned char
archs
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Package: libncurses6
Version: 6.5+20251115-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
I can reproduce this issue with armhf, arm64, riscv64 architectures
zsh is the shell for theses arches.
downgrading ncurses related packages to 6.5+20250216-2 solve this issue.
Christian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers buildd-unstable
APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.58-1-custom (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages libncurses6:armhf depends on:
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libtinfo6 6.5+20251115-2
Versions of packages libncurses6:armhf recommends:
ii libgpm2 1.20.7-12
libncurses6:armhf suggests no packages.
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Source: ncurses
Source-Version: 6.5+20251123-1
Done: Sven Joachim <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ncurses, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sven Joachim <[email protected]> (supplier of updated ncurses package)
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:50:02 +0100
Source: ncurses
Architecture: source
Version: 6.5+20251123-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Ncurses Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Sven Joachim <[email protected]>
Closes: 1121191
Changes:
ncurses (6.5+20251123-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* New upstream patchlevel.
- Revert change using NCURSES_SBOOL in tic.h which interfered with
sign-extension in tigetflag (Closes: #1121191).
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