Debian Bug report logs - #17748
dselect no longer resizes inside xterm

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Kirk Hilliard <kirk@ghoti.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dselect no longer resizes inside xterm

Date: 02 Feb 1998 08:40:55 -0500

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.20

The dselect selection screen no longer resizes when its xterm is
resized.  This is a recently introduced bug since dselect version
1.4.0.8 (from bo) which works correctly, even when run from hamm.

To reproduce, make a tall xterm, choose "2. [S]elect", press [space].
Note the blue separator bar across the middle.  Shrink the height of
the xterm by half.  The blue separator bar is now at the bottom.  With
dselect version 1.4.0.8, the selection screen resizes, placing the
blue separator bar back in the middle.  (Note that this is more than
just a problem of unequal sharing of the screen between the top and
bottom sections.  After resizing the xterm, the two sections write
over each other while scrolling.

Kirk Hilliard

Message #14 received at 17748@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Kirk Hilliard <kirk@debian.org>

To: 17748@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>

Subject: Should dpkg-iwj bugs be closed.

Date: 10 Apr 2000 18:33:00 -0400

I filed bug #17748 against dpkg over two years ago, and it was
reassigned to dpkg-iwj by Ben Collins last fall.

Does dpkg-iwj actually exist as a package?

Should bugs against it be closed?


The current dpkg package does not display symptoms of this bug.  If it
would help bring them to closure, I would volunteer to step through
the bugs open against dpkg-iwj, verifying that they do not manifest
themselves in the current dpkg package.

Kirk Hilliard

Message #19 received at 17748@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@mors.wiggy.net>

To: Kirk Hilliard <kirk@debian.org>, 17748@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#17748: Should dpkg-iwj bugs be closed.

Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 01:54:03 -0400

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Previously Kirk Hilliard wrote:
> Does dpkg-iwj actually exist as a package?

It exists as a CVS tree, not as an actual package. I expect that I some
point iwj will officialy declare it a dead branch and close all its
bugs.

> The current dpkg package does not display symptoms of this bug.  If it
> would help bring them to closure, I would volunteer to step through
> the bugs open against dpkg-iwj, verifying that they do not manifest
> themselves in the current dpkg package.

I think that Ben and I were already reasonably thorough in checking that
all bugs were fixed before reassigning them. There are also a couple in
there that are basically requests for a design overhaul that will probably
not happen in dpkg anyway.

Wichert.

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Message #24 received at 17748@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>

To: 17748@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#17748: Should dpkg-iwj bugs be closed.

Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 03:16:41 +0100 (BST)

Wichert Akkerman writes ("Bug#17748: Should dpkg-iwj bugs be closed."):
> Previously Kirk Hilliard wrote:
> > Does dpkg-iwj actually exist as a package?
> 
> It exists as a CVS tree, not as an actual package. I expect that I some
> point iwj will officialy declare it a dead branch and close all its
> bugs.

I hereby officially declare it a dead branch.

I'll close the bugs when I get round to it.

> I think that Ben and I were already reasonably thorough in checking that
> all bugs were fixed before reassigning them. There are also a couple in
> there that are basically requests for a design overhaul that will probably
> not happen in dpkg anyway.

I might want to preserve some of those.

Ian.

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