[Aptitude-devel] Bug#892923: aptitude: After upgrading ncurses, aptitude fails to correctly display dialog windows and align columns

[Jiri Palecek]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.10-6
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

after upgrading libncurses5 to version 6.1-1, aptitude no longer
displays its GUI correctly. The columns are not aligned, and the dialog
boxes fail to use the width of the screen. See this screenshot with what
should be a search dialog:
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Other console applications (mc, emacs) don't exhibit this behaviour, so
I'm filing this to aptitude. Please have a look at it.

Regards
    Jiri Palecek


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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-rc7-bughunt+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2), LANGUAGE= (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.8.10-6
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.6~beta1
ii  libboost-filesystem1.62.0  1.62.0+dfsg-4+b2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.62.0   1.62.0+dfsg-4+b2
ii  libboost-system1.62.0      1.62.0+dfsg-4+b2
ii  libc6                      2.26-6
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-7
ii  libgcc1                    1:7.3.0-1
ii  libncursesw5               6.1-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.10.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.21.0-1
ii  libstdc++6                 7.3.0-1
ii  libtinfo5                  6.1-1
ii  libxapian30                1.4.5-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-12
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.11

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index                <none>
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
pn  debtags                         <none>
pn  tasksel                         <none>

-- no debconf information