Package: ncurses-base Version: 5.7+20090803-2 Severity: normal The Debian installer uses bogl-bterm on the primary terminal, which uses TERM=bterm. Neither ncurses-base nor ncurses-term knows about this terminal type, so all screen-oriented programs fail to run. This affects the ability to run such programs from a rescue environment, forcing the user to switch to an alternate TTY rather than using the shell run by the installer; if the user doesn't know how to do that, they'll find themselves unable to run editors, aptitude, and other such programs useful when recovering a system.
Please include the terminfo entry for bterm, preferably in ncurses-base, but if not there then in ncurses-term. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ncurses-base depends on: ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ncurses-base recommends no packages. ncurses-base suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
