Bug#631824: libvte-common: testing upgrade retrigers 'Failed to load terminal capabilities from /etc/termcap'

[Jean Privat]

Package: libvte-common
Version: 1:0.28.1-1
Severity: important

Gome-terminal spawns

    *** VTE ***: Failed to load terminal capabilities from '/etc/termcap'

(and do not respond to the return key)


Doing

    ln -T /usr/share/vte/termcap-0.0/xterm /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm

as mentioned in a previous message in the bug worked around the thing.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

-- no debconf information