Bug#723944: gnome-terminal: g-t says it is "xterm" while in fact it is "xterm-256color", this severely limits the user experience/comfort

[folkert]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.4.1.1-2
Severity: important

g-t says it is "xterm" while in fact it is "xterm-256color", this severely
limits the user experience/comfort
Without the correct "xterm-256color" settings programs are limited to 16
colors.



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

Kernel: Linux 3.11-rc4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gconf-service              3.2.6-1
ii  gnome-terminal-data        3.4.1.1-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.4.2-3
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.8.0-2
ii  libc6                      2.17-3
ii  libgconf-2-4               3.2.6-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.28.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.36.1-2build1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.4.2-6
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.8-2
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.32.5-5+b1
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.1-2
ii  libvte-2.90-9              1:0.32.2-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.0-1

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.6.12-1
ii  gvfs      1.12.3-4
ii  yelp      3.8.1-2

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information