Debian bug report logs - #927 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#927: dselect display bug Reply-To: Bill Mitchell , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: Bill Mitchell Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 00:33:03 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Tue, 30 May 1995 00:33:03 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 053000201323715; Tue, 30 May 1995 00:20:14 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sGF1a-0005O4C; Mon, 29 May 95 17:19 PDT Received: from motgate.mot.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA06311 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Mon, 29 May 1995 17:17:43 -0700 Received: from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com (8.6.11/8.6.10/MOT-3.6) with ESMTP id TAA26034 for ; Mon, 29 May 1995 19:19:07 -0500 Received: from mdd.comm.mot.com (mdisea.mdd.comm.mot.com [138.242.64.201]) by pobox.mot.com (8.6.11/8.6.10/MOT-3.6) with SMTP id TAA19078 for ; Mon, 29 May 1995 19:19:06 -0500 Received: from bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com by mdd.comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02478; Mon, 29 May 95 17:19:05 PDT Received: by bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06930; Mon, 29 May 95 17:19:04 PDT Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 17:19:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Mitchell X-Sender: mitchell@bb29c To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Package: dpkg Version: 0.93.42 I've been noticing for some time now that dselect will sometimes scroll the top line of the display off, and finally realized what the common denominator in "sometimes" is. This happens after I use kermit to dial up a remote system which resets my screen to 80X24. dselect seems to assume that the screen is set to 80X25 on startup, and this isn't necessarily true. mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Bill Mitchell Subject: Bug#927: Acknowledgement (was: dselect display bug) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#927" or "Re: Bug#927" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#927: dselect display bug Reply-To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 22:18:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Tue, 30 May 1995 22:18:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 053022091718755; Tue, 30 May 1995 22:09:18 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sGZSP-00064uC; Tue, 30 May 95 15:08 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA12198 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Tue, 30 May 1995 15:06:46 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0sGYJU-000C0FC; Tue, 30 May 95 21:54 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.31); Tue, 30 May 95 20:42 BST Message-Id: Date: Tue, 30 May 95 20:42 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Bill Mitchell writes ("Bug#927: dselect display bug"): > Package: dpkg > Version: 0.93.42 > > I've been noticing for some time now that dselect will sometimes > scroll the top line of the display off, and finally realized > what the common denominator in "sometimes" is. This happens > after I use kermit to dial up a remote system which resets my > screen to 80X24. dselect seems to assume that the screen > is set to 80X25 on startup, and this isn't necessarily true. This is probably an ncurses bug. ncurses determines the screen size itself, and makes heavy use of the information itself (as well as passing it up to dselect so that dselect can carve up the available area). It's also possible that kermit or the remote system is putting the terminal in a weird mode and not resetting it properly. If this is the case then it's a bug in kermit or the remote system, respectively. Applications like dselect are entitled to assume that the terminal starts in a moderately sane state. If someone tells me that significant numbers of ncurses bugs are fixed in a particular ncurses version I'll download and install that and upload a new dpkg package. However, I don't want to spend any more time than I have to documenting and reporting ncurses bugs, and I certainly don't want to get into regression testing ncurses and re-reporting old bugs. Whatever it is, it's not a bug in dselect :-). (I'll leave this bug open, of course - when the problem has been identified and solved, could the person responsible please close it). Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Subject: Bug#927: Info received (was Bug#927: dselect display bug) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs-request: From thor.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Fri Sep 8 10:38:38 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sr7Nu-000C17C; Fri, 8 Sep 95 10:38 PDT Received: from hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA04322 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-request-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Fri, 8 Sep 1995 10:38:23 -0700 Received: by hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #77) id m0sr7LD-000JfFC; Fri, 8 Sep 95 18:35 BST Message-Id: Date: Fri, 8 Sep 95 18:35 BST From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: debian-bugs-request@pixar.com Subject: Not bugs in the dpkg package, and dselect=>dpkg reassign 1278 libc? NIS? reassign 927 ncurses? reassign 841 ncurses reassign 1290 man reassign 962 dselect ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov