Package: dselect Version: 1.10.4 Followup-For: Bug #155741 In dselect 1.10.4 and 1.10.9, bad screen output results when the terminal can't do colors, typically when dselect tries to show warning screens, but other times too. The output may be bold, blinking, inverse video, or (most annoyingly) in the terminal's alternate character set.
The bug is in the file baselist.cc, in baselist::startdisplay. It initializes the helpscreen_attr member only if the terminal has color. Changing the code to zero helpscreen_attr fixes the bug. The bug isn't in 1.9.21 because helpscreen_attr isn't in that version. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux pav 2.2.19 #1 Sat Jun 9 13:04:06 EST 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages dselect depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-14.3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-8 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library
