On 2023-12-06 02:57 +0500, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> Package: ncurses-base
> Version: 6.4-4
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
>
> As discussed in:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905247
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=933053
> I now see the exact same issue again after a bullseye -> bookworm upgrade.
>
> What happened there?
Basically an oversight. In early 2021, upstream made changes to the
xterm* terminfo entries which rendered our workaround for #933053
useless. Unfortunately I failed notice that, and nobody complained
during the 20+ months of bookworm development where this was the case.
Only a few weeks ago I became aware that the patch for #933053 had
actually been non-functional for two years, and dropped it
completely[1].
It seems that you are still running some rather old terminal emulator
from the Debian 9 era that does not implement the "repeat character"
feature. Or maybe you are using mosh, which still fails in this
regard[2].
In any case, reintroducing the workaround into a stable Debian release
seems much harder to justify now than it was in 2019. Basically all
popular terminal emulators that set $TERM to xterm or xterm-256color
have been fixed as of Debian 11 (most should be fixed in Debian 10).
If for some reason you cannot upgrade, there are a few workarounds.
- Set $TERM to something else than xterm(-256color). What exactly is
appropriate depends on your terminal emulator.
- Downgrade ncurses-base to the bullseye version - it seems you already
did that.
- Install your own version of the xterm/xterm-256color terminfo entries
without the "rep" capability. Here is how you can do that:
infocmp -x xterm | sed '$a\ rep@,' | tic -x -
infocmp -x xterm-256color | sed '$a\ rep@,' | tic -x -
If you run these commands as root, they install the modified terminfo
entries into /etc/terminfo, otherwise into ${HOME}/.terminfo. Both take
precedence over the system files under /lib/terminfo.
Good luck and sorry for the inconvenience.
Cheers,
Sven
1.
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ncurses/-/commit/a63daf108bfdbaa05d7403e85ae34a5f7fb3fe70
2. https://bugs.debian.org/930037
