[Debconf-devel] Bug#640749: debconf: Does not display correctly in non 80x24/5 terminal

[Daniel Dickinson]

Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.40
Severity: normal


The Dialog frontend is not resizing to fit inside the current window when on a terminal other than 80x25.  This under screen inside an xfce4-terminal window.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'stable-updates'), (100, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii  perl-base                     5.12.4-4   minimal Perl system

Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii  apt-utils                     0.8.15.6   APT utility programs
ii  debconf-i18n                  1.5.40     full internationalization support 

Versions of packages debconf suggests:
ii  debconf-doc               1.5.40         debconf documentation
ii  debconf-utils             1.5.40         debconf utilities
ii  dialog                    1.1-20110707-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  libgtk2-perl              2:1.223-1+b1   Perl interface to the 2.x series o
pn  libnet-ldap-perl          <none>         (no description available)
pn  libqtcore4-perl           <none>         (no description available)
pn  libqtgui4-perl            <none>         (no description available)
ii  libterm-readline-gnu-perl 1.20-1+b1      Perl extension for the GNU ReadLin
ii  perl                      5.12.4-4       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  whiptail                  0.52.11-2.1    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

-- debconf information:
  debconf-apt-progress/title:
  debconf-apt-progress/info:
  debconf/priority: high
  debconf-apt-progress/preparing:
  debconf-apt-progress/media-change:
  debconf/frontend: Dialog