Debian bug report logs - #879, boring messages

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Subject: Bug#879: ncurses and dselect core dumps
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Package: dpkg
Version: 0.93.39

dselect coredumps as soon as I run it if I'm using vt100 as a TERM
environment, works fine with TERM=xterm. This is another example
of the 1.9.1a ncurses bug. Please someone fix :)

Kernel 1.2.8, libc 4.6.27, ncurses 1.9.1a

Andrew

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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell)
Subject: Bug#879: Acknowledgement (was: ncurses and dselect core dumps)
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