Provide screen.xterm-256color and rxvt-unicode-256color terminfo entries in ncurses-base
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ncurses (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Bionic |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
The gnome standard terminal emulator (gnome-terminal) sets TERM=xterm-
Regression potential: The size of ncurses-base is increased by 3500 bytes (unpacked). The debian-installer packages might need adjustment for the additional size.
Acceptance criteria: The package builds, and provides the new terminfo entries in ncurses-base (note that no Breaks/Replaces are needed, because these are installed in a different path).
Also backport the fix for security issue CVE-2018-10754, fixing a segfault, adding a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when a use-name is invalid syntax.
Hello Matthias, or anyone else affected,
Accepted ncurses into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https:/ /launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +source/ ncurses/ 6.1-1ubuntu1. 18.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/Testing/ EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.
If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification- needed- bionic to verification- done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification- failed- bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.
Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/QATeam/ PerformingSRUVe rification . Thank you in advance!