Bug#469880: gpm breaks finch

[Luke Schierer]

Package: gpm
Version: 1.20.3~pre3-2.1
Severity: important


Since the upgrade to 1.20.3~pre3-2.1, finch will not work with gpm
running.  It hangs initializing its mouse support.

Investigation suggests that this is because gpm was not compiled with
--without-curses while ncurses was built with gpm support.  Further
investigation suggests that this was caused by the fix for 468465.

the "fix" was to chmod +x configure which presumably was not +x
already because autoconf failed, but patches/050_dont_link_libcurses
patches configure.in, so the broken fix probably just made the
unpatched/regenerated configure run which doesn't disable curses

Thanks,
luke

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.19          Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils              2.28.4          Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                    2.7-9           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgpmg1                 1.20.3~pre3-2.1 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-4           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  ucf                      3.005           Update Configuration File: preserv

gpm recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* gpm/responsiveness:
* gpm/repeat_type: none
* gpm/append:
  gpm/restart: false
* gpm/sample_rate:
* gpm/type: exps2
* gpm/device: /dev/input/mice