[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#470230: base: Multiple lines on terminal does not works

[Saulo Soares de Toledo]

Package: base
Severity: important

In all terminals (any tty, konsoke, gnome-terminal, xterm etc.), when typing
a command who have more than one line, the next line starts on the position
of first line, and superpose the text. It's a lot confuse!

And more, sometimes when deleting some chars on terminal, there are a lot of
characters superposed of other previous lines too, I need clean the terminal
and starts again because I can't read what I've typed.

I've waited 1 month of "apt-get dist-upgrade" and no correction for this.
Another Linux distributions works correctilly: the next line is added how a
new line.

For example:
../configure --prefix=/usr/local/bin --lib-dir=/usr/local/lib --option3=none
--option4=true

returns this on terminal:
--option4=trueprefix=/usr/local/bin --lib-dir=/usr/local/lib --option3=none

With 3 or more command lines this is horrible!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash