Bug#500103: gpm: aptitude segfaults with latest ncurses

[Sven Joachim]

package gpm
merge 326709 500103
thanks

On 2008-09-25 12:14 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> Package: gpm
>> Version: 1.20.4-2
>> Severity: important
>>
>> With latest ncurses (5.6+20080920-1) installed, aptitude's UI segfaults
>> at the Linux console in various actions.  Exiting, suspending and trying
>> to become root all result in SIGSEGV.  Here is a backtrace from exiting
>> aptitude:
>
> I did change this area - appears there's a problem (thanks)

It seems that it is bug #326709 reoccuring, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326709#20.

Regards,
        Sven