Bug#770369: Eterm is also broken for me

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I have the same problem,
OS is Debian Jessie, added the Eterm package, same version number 0.9.6-1
starting Eterm has not only a blank window, but the process runs the cpu 
at 100%, and won't stop even after clicking the close button on the window.
I must manually kill the process to stop it.
My Debian Jessie is up to date, apt-get update today 2015.Sep.06
This bug is over half a year old with no solutions given.
Status please?
What earlier version can I roll back to, to fix this?