Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-04-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-04-01 12:30:55 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-04-01 11:51 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 10:32:59AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> I'll probably revert all the linux changes from the 20110716 patch, > >> since their outcome seems unacceptable to me. > > Thin

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-04-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 12:30:55PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-04-01 11:51 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 10:32:59AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> > >> I'll probably revert all the linux changes from the 20110716 patch, > >> since their outcome seems unaccept

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-04-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-04-01 11:51 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 10:32:59AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> I'll probably revert all the linux changes from the 20110716 patch, >> since their outcome seems unacceptable to me. Thinking about it again, it is probably better to just make t

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-04-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 10:32:59AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-04-01 08:32 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > How about running a test, e.g. like this: > > > > LC_ALL=C dialog --infobox "Line drawing characters garbled" 24 80 > > > > I see lots of 'Ä' characters at the top/bottom and '³'

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-04-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-04-01 08:32 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > How about running a test, e.g. like this: > > LC_ALL=C dialog --infobox "Line drawing characters garbled" 24 80 > > I see lots of 'Ä' characters at the top/bottom and '³' characters on the > left and right margins. Incidentally, reverting the rma

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-03-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-03-31 22:51 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Elimar's probably can probably be solved by setting TERM to linux2.2 As I said, this solution is far from ideal as it forces changing TERM when connecting to systems who do not have the latest and greatest terminfo descriptions. > However, I don'

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-03-31 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 04:43:21PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-03-27 17:22:01 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > As I recall, the main reason why the change for #515609 was accepted was > > considering the non-ncurses uses (such as termcap applications and slang). > > Not sure what you me

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-03-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-03-27 17:22:01 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > As I recall, the main reason why the change for #515609 was accepted was > considering the non-ncurses uses (such as termcap applications and slang). Not sure what you mean by "non-ncurses uses", but scripts that use the tput command were affect

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-03-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-03-27 23:22 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 04:58:42PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 08:10:42PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >> > * Sven Joachim [2012-03-27 19:54 +0200]: >> > >> > > Am 27.03.2012 um 17:34 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter: >>

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-03-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 04:58:42PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 08:10:42PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > * Sven Joachim [2012-03-27 19:54 +0200]: > > > > > Am 27.03.2012 um 17:34 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter: > > > > > > > * Sven Joachim [2012-03-27 17:06 +0200]: >

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-03-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 08:10:42PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Sven Joachim [2012-03-27 19:54 +0200]: > > > Am 27.03.2012 um 17:34 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter: > > > > > * Sven Joachim [2012-03-27 17:06 +0200]: > [...] > > >> This combination is asking for trouble since you will general

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-03-27 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Sven Joachim [2012-03-27 19:54 +0200]: > Am 27.03.2012 um 17:34 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter: > > > * Sven Joachim [2012-03-27 17:06 +0200]: [...] > >> This combination is asking for trouble since you will generally not be > >> able to display non-ASCII characters with it. At least LC_MESSAGES

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-03-27 Thread Sven Joachim
Am 27.03.2012 um 17:34 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter: > * Sven Joachim [2012-03-27 17:06 +0200]: > >> Am 27.03.2012 um 13:25 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter: >> >> > Package: ncurses-base >> > Version: 5.9-5 >> > Severity: normal >> > >> > After an update to 5.9-5 the linux console can't disply ACL's an

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-03-27 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Sven Joachim [2012-03-27 17:06 +0200]: > Am 27.03.2012 um 13:25 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter: > > > Package: ncurses-base > > Version: 5.9-5 > > Severity: normal > > > > After an update to 5.9-5 the linux console can't disply ACL's anymore. This > > came > > up to me running mutt using ACL in t

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-03-27 Thread Sven Joachim
Am 27.03.2012 um 13:25 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter: > Package: ncurses-base > Version: 5.9-5 > Severity: normal > > After an update to 5.9-5 the linux console can't disply ACL's anymore. This > came > up to me running mutt using ACL in thread display. It is apparently a side effect of using rmacs

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-03-27 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
retitle 665959 "ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACS characters anymore." thanks * Elimar Riesebieter [2012-03-27 13:25 +0200]: > Package: ncurses-base > Version: 5.9-5 > Severity: normal Sorry: s/ACL/ACS/ ;-) > After an update to 5.9-5 the linux console can't disply ACL's anymore.

Bug#665959: ncurses-base: linux console can't display ACL's anymore

2012-03-27 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Package: ncurses-base Version: 5.9-5 Severity: normal After an update to 5.9-5 the linux console can't disply ACL's anymore. This came up to me running mutt using ACL in thread display. Copying /lib/terminfo/l out of 5.9-4 to /etc/terminfo or $HOME/.terminfo/ braught me to the old behaviour. Elim