I can confirm that M-x xterm in emacs24 sets TERM to eterm-color when
launched out of the box on Ubuntu 15.04. (In the regular terminal, it's
simply xterm.)
Whether this should be fixed in the packaging (make it not set eterm-
color) or dependencies (pull in ncurses-term) is an open question,
though.
Inside xterm, e.g. "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow dictionaries-common" is
a way to trigger the bug. With ncurses-term installed, I get a "nice"
colorful ncurses dialog box; without it, dpkg-reconfigure aborts.
Another obvious workaround is to specify a nongraphical Debconf front-
end.
sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=readline dpkg-reconfigure -plow dictionaries-common
** Changed in: emacs24 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Missing dependency: emacs does not pull any package providing
/usr/share/terminfo/e/eterm-color
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