minicom no longer expands macros correctly

[Chris Packham]

After updating from ubuntu 20.04 (which had minicom 2.7) to ubuntu 22.04 (which has minicom 2.8) the special sequences in the .macros file for adding a delay (^~) or carriage return (^M) are no longer interpreted and are output as literal strings (I assume all the special sequences are affected).

There does appear to be an upstream bug report about this https://github.com/Distrotech/minicom/issues/7

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: minicom 2.8-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-60.66-generic 5.15.78
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-60-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Thu Mar 2 09:31:32 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-02-28 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 22.04.1 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220809.1)
SourcePackage: minicom
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2023-02-28T19:11:49.043704

[Chris Packham (cpackham)]

Looks like there is an upstream fix but it hasn't been merged

https://salsa.debian.org/minicom-team/minicom/-/merge_requests/13/diffs?commit_id=b24707094e082cdfcc9f1d0f08d508f4f1c142fc
https://salsa.debian.org/minicom-team/minicom/-/merge_requests/13/diffs?commit_id=7f3c8962dcfc67faa559ff8b2cfb3b18d48c1196