[Aptitude-devel] Bug#796900: aptitude: display of resolution options is completely broken

[Norbert Preining]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7-1+b1
Severity: serious
Justification: unusable

Dear aptitude maintainers,

since the update to the +b1 version and a general libstdc++
upgrade orgy, the aptitude on my computer is now more or 
less broken. When ever there is a conflict/problem (red status line,
suggesting resolutions) and I go into the examine screen with 'e', the
list of packages to be examined is completely messed up. Not *one*
package name is readable (see attached screenshot).

This is 100% reproducible, and independent of terminals, I tried
gnome-terminal and roxterm.

I have no idea what/who is the culprit here, but on my system everything
is set to UTF8, as usual.

All the best

Norbert


-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$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 (0x00007ffd388b8000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.16 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.16 (0x00007fafed668000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fafed438000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fafed20d000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fafed007000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fafecd08000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fafeca3a000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007fafec821000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fafec41f000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fafec201000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fafebe86000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fafebb85000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fafeb96e000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fafeb5c5000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fafeb3c2000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fafeb1bd000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fafeafa2000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fafead92000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fafeab6e000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fafea966000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fafea760000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000560eeff0d000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-rc7+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
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:
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-7
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

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

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