Bug#476431: Bug#470882: /dev/gpmctl freezes acknowledge

Gerfried Fuchs rhonda at deb.at
Fri Oct 10 12:34:14 UTC 2008


* Thomas Dickey <dickey at radix.net> [2008-10-10 13:30:18 CEST]:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:10:35PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > w3m 0.5.2-2+b1, Versions of packages w3m depends on:
> 
> I already commented on w3m.  It's using names from ncurses without actually
> using the ncurses library, to fool gpm into working by calling w3m's code.

 Ah, sorry.

> ...Of the programs mentioned, ncurses updates should only affect aptitude.
> pdmenu does not appear to rely on ncurses (see my first reply).

 Hanging pdmenu doesn't affect aptitude usage. I'm currently downgrading
ncurses5 again to test wether that is really an improvement, wasn't sure
how it was before that.

 Yes, downgrading ncurses5 makes aptitude hang, too.

 So long,
Rhonda





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