Bug#443018: libvte9: Displays garbage

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 08:25:13AM +0200, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:13:50AM +0200, Mike Hommey <mh+reportbug at glandium.org> wrote:
> > Package: libvte9
> > Version: 1:0.16.8-1
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > It happens mostly when using "man", but it also happens in various
> > other occasions.
> > 
> > The attached image will speak better than myself. You can see the
> > negative of a random bitmap (not so random, since it's the menu
> > displayed a few moments ago), and some characters mixing in the manpage
> > itself.
> 
> It /seems/ to not happen anymore. In the meanwhile, there has been a lot
> of upgrades, and I restarted gdm (so, X). One thing for sure, is that
> there also has been a gnome-term and libvte upgrade a few days ago, but
> that changed nothing after a gnome-term restart. I'll try to take a look
> at my dpkg.log and find which package upgrade is responsible of the fix.
> I'll then suggest you to add a conflict or properly versioned dependency
> on whatever the cause was...

Well, after a while, it did happen again :-/

Mike