[Aptitude-devel] Bug#796504: aptitude: package titles appear as garbage text in Resolve Dep. window

[Facundo Gaich]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7-1+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When opening the Resolve Dependencies windows, a subset of the packages titles
are shown as random bytes instead, which changes after each keystroke.

Looking at the system info below, it seems aptitude is currently built against
ncruses 5.9 while the latest version in unstable is 6.0, so maybe that's the
root of the problem.

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.7 compiled at Aug  7 2015 19:34:17
Compiler: g++ 5.2.1 20150730
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.16.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.4.1
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20150810
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.16.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd6bbbf000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.16 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.16 (0x00007f53414b0000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f5341280000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f5341055000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5340e4f000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f5340b50000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f5340882000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f5340669000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f5340267000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f5340049000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f533fcce000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f533f9cd000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f533f7b6000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f533f40d000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f533f20a000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f533f005000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f533edea000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f533ebda000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f533e9b6000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f533e7ae000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f533e5a8000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000562f68c61000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.7-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.16            1.0.10.2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.58.0  1.58.0+dfsg-3
ii  libc6                     2.19-19
ii  libcwidget3v5             0.5.17-4
ii  libgcc1                   1:5.2.1-15
ii  libncursesw5              6.0+20150810-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.4.1-2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.11.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                5.2.1-15
ii  libtinfo5                 6.0+20150810-1
ii  libxapian22v5             1.2.21-1.2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.7-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-6
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index  0.47
pn  debtags           <none>
ii  tasksel           3.33

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