This is 100% reproducible for me. I've never seen it not happen.
I filled my window with "x" characters (yes | head) then ran aptitude and installed a package. Not only does it overwrite what was on the screen before, it even changes the text color! Screenshot at http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/debian/289071.png -- the shot is from a WinXP box logged into a Debian sarge system using the PuTTY ssh client, but the same thing happens on the local machine using an xterm or Konsole. This isn't too obnoxious if your window happens to be filled with "x" characters, but if it's full of actual commands and their output, it can make the aptitude output very difficult to read.
I'd be happier if aptitude put the cursor at the bottom of the window before installing, rather than clearing the screen; that way when I quite aptitude I can scroll back in the window if I want to see what was there before I ran aptitude. But clearing the screen would be better than the current behavior.
-Steve
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