[Aptitude-devel] Bug#730795: Bug#730795: aptitude: buggy newline output with aptitude-curses in case of error during package install

[Axel Beckert]

Control: tag -1 + confirmed

Hi Vincent,

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> See the incorrect newline handling after the dpkg error (there's a LF
> but not a CR). Since /usr/bin/aptitude-curses contains both messages
> "A package failed to install" and "Trying to recover", I suppose this
> comes from this process.
>
> FYI, the terminal is an xterm.

Same here, also with xterm and on nearly every architecture. But just
for a few days so far.

Since aptitude hasn't seen much change recently I rather suspect an
hook in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ to be the cause.

Didn't notice that Enter no more works afterwards as I usually stop
aptitude with Ctrl-C at that point anyway. But I noticed that typing
into the terminal does not echo the keys either, so it looks as if the
terminal has been set to some different mode, but no more set back.

So typing "reset<Enter>" blindly after pressing Ctrl-C should always
help.

		Regards, Axel
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