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

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi Jiri,

2018-03-14 15:34 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:
>
>Other console applications (mc, emacs) don't exhibit this behaviour, so
>I'm filing this to aptitude. Please have a look at it.

Thanks for the report.

I have the same versions installed and for me it works perfectly.

  $ aptitude search -F '%p %v' --disable-columns '~i~n^(aptitude|libncursesw5)$'
  aptitude 0.8.10-6
  aptitude-common 0.8.10-6
  aptitude-dbgsym 0.8.10-6
  libncursesw5 6.1-1
  libncursesw5-dev 6.1-1

This will require more investigation.

Maybe the locale/encoding?

  Locale: LANG=cs_CZ, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2), LANGUAGE= (charmap=ISO-8859-2)

I am using UTF-8.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>