I reported this against ncurses and not eterm because apparently ncurses-base provides the terminfo files, which is where I found the fix. I have no idea where it came from, but on my dapper box I have a /etc/terminfo/E/Eterm file, and if I put this file on my edgy box, the problem goes away. Apt-file doesn't say anything about this file, but it does mention /lib/terminfo/E/Eterm, which exists on both machines with the same md5sum. Apparently /etc/terminfo gets searched first, so this file (wherever it came from) gets used and solves the problem. Attaching the compiled terminfo file.
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