Bug#473617: jed fails to start with rxvt-unicode

[Fake Name Here]

Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Hallo Fake,
>
> Fake Name Here schrieb am Sat 05. Apr, 12:11 (-0400):
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>> Jörg Sommer wrote:
>>     
>>> Fake Name Here schrieb am Wed 02. Apr, 10:02 (-0400):
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Jörg Sommer wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Fake Name Here schrieb am Mon 31. Mar, 12:44 (-0400):
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>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Package: jed
>>>>>> Version: 1:0.99.18+dfsg.1-9
>>>>>> Severity: important
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I run 'jed' and my $TERM is set to 'rxvt-unicode', it appears to
>>>>>> hang. ps lists the process 'jed' as using memory, but nothing displays
>>>>>> in the terminal. It works fine when my $TERM is set to xterm, even if
>>>>>> I'm actually using rxvt-unicode - but not if my $TERM is set to rxvt.
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Which version of rxvt-unicode do you use? I can't reproduce this
>>>>> behaviour.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> rxvt-unicode is version 8.3.
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>>>>         
>>> Can you test the package from sid? I tried 9.02-1 from sid and, as said,
>>> I couldn't reproduce this bug.
>>>       
>> Is it possible to do that without manually retreiving all of the 
>> dependencies?
>>     
>
> Yes, rxvt-unicode in testing is 9.02, today. Please try it.
>
> Bye, Jörg.
>   
Problem persists with 9.02. No difference with rxvt-unicode-lite either. 
I noticed w3m produces the same 'hangy' result. Maybe this is a problem 
with libgpmg1 or libncurses?