On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 06:26:54PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2016-03-06 18:51 +0900, Kusanagi Kouichi wrote:
> 
> > Package: libncursesw5
> > Version: 6.0+20160213-1
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Since ncurses 6.0+20160213-1, mutt's thread display is broken.
> 
> Right, but only in non-utf8 locales, which explains why nobody noticed
> it before.
> 
> > Downgrading libncursesw5 to 6.0+20151024-2 fixes the issue.
> 
> A bisection shows that it appeared first in the 20151212 patchlevel
> which has this NEWS entry:

> ,----
> | 20151212
> |     + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
> |       needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
> |       does not work.  Also modified the test program to ensure that if
> |       building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
> |       normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
> |     + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
> |       in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
> |       drawing characters as double-width.
> `----
> 
> Comments from upstream (CC'ed) would be appreciated.

I see (mostly I was concerned with getting Solaris to "work").
It's a regression, though a "normal" bug, per Debian guidelines

        https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities

The behavior with Solaris would classify as "important".
I'll work to improve the tradeoff :-)

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