Bug#1056340: 6.4+20231118-1 screws many terminal utilities
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 04:02:20PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 05:33:54PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Control: reassign -1 libncursesw6 6.4+20231118-1 > > Control: severity -1 grave > > > > On 2023-11-21 12:32 +0100, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote: > > > > > Source: ncurses > > > Severity: important > > > X-Debbugs-Cc: sher...@gmail.com > > > > > > I've updated to 6.4+20231118-1 version of ncurses but many > > > utils are screwed, tested in konsole and linux console (vt) > > > > > > htop shows a lot of ^@ characters > > thanks - I can reproduce this (will fix) I see - I misread the older logic for waddnstr in last week's fix, and will amend that more/less as suggested. -- Thomas E. Dickey https://invisible-island.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#1056340: 6.4+20231118-1 screws many terminal utilities
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 05:33:54PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Control: reassign -1 libncursesw6 6.4+20231118-1 > Control: severity -1 grave > > On 2023-11-21 12:32 +0100, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote: > > > Source: ncurses > > Severity: important > > X-Debbugs-Cc: sher...@gmail.com > > > > I've updated to 6.4+20231118-1 version of ncurses but many > > utils are screwed, tested in konsole and linux console (vt) > > > > htop shows a lot of ^@ characters thanks - I can reproduce this (will fix) -- Thomas E. Dickey https://invisible-island.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#1056340: 6.4+20231118-1 screws many terminal utilities
Control: reassign -1 libncursesw6 6.4+20231118-1 Control: severity -1 grave On 2023-11-21 12:32 +0100, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote: > Source: ncurses > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: sher...@gmail.com > > I've updated to 6.4+20231118-1 version of ncurses but many > utils are screwed, tested in konsole and linux console (vt) > > htop shows a lot of ^@ characters > > dselect (in linux console) shows also something like: > > ^@ is obsolete and is kept around for the time being for > > looks like it comes from locale.alias comment > > downgrading to 6.4+20231016-1 fixes the problem Thanks for the report. This bug has been introduced in the latest upstream patchlevel, reverting the 20231118 changes to ncurses/base/lib_addstr.c makes it go away. Cheers, Sven
