On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 08:56:49AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > I was just rummaging through the critical bug list and ran across bug > #31625, "curses-base: xterm/rxvt display messed up on exit from nvi". Is it > just me, or does this really need to be critical or grave? I mean, yes, it > is a bug which affects other software but it is hardly a security hole or > something that would cause a loss of data. At best it is an annoyance on par > with joe v2.8 munging the screen in rxvt/xterm when it exits (which also > could be an ncurses problem). This sounds like one of the bugs I have against X, #29822. The problem has to do with cursor position save and restore. There is not a separate variable used for the "alternate screen" used by xterm (and rxvt, I suppose). Essentially, the problem is cosmetic. I do not believe it should be regarded as release-critical. Thomas Dickey, who is handling xterm for the XFree86 Project, apparently has a patch to correct this in 3.3.3. Bug report #29822 has a patch, but according to Thomas Dickey it doesn't work correctly. No, I do not regard that as sufficient cause to put 3.3.3 in slink. I suggest the ncurses maintainer set the severity of 31625 to normal, reassign it to xterm, and merge it with 29822. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Never attribute to malice that which can branden@ecn.purdue.edu | be adequately explained by stupidity. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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