[Bug 1772872] Re: Provide screen.xterm-256color and rxvt-unicode-256color terminfo entries in ncurses-base

[Brian Murray]

Hello Matthias, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ncurses into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ncurses/6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from
verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of
your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: ncurses (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic

** Changed in: ncurses (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  Provide screen.xterm-256color and rxvt-unicode-256color terminfo
  entries in ncurses-base

Status in ncurses package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ncurses source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  The gnome standard terminal emulator (gnome-terminal) sets TERM=xterm-
  256color, and screen sets it to screen.xterm-256color, resulting in an
  usuable TERM setting, because the terminfo settings are not available
  by default. This patch includes the screen.xterm-256color and rxvt-
  unicode-256color settings in ncurses-base, resulting in working screen
  settings out-of-the-box.

  Regression potential: The size of ncurses-base is increased by 3500
  bytes (unpacked).  The debian-installer packages might need adjustment
  for the additional size.

  Acceptance criteria: The package builds, and provides the new terminfo
  entries in ncurses-base (note that no Breaks/Replaces are needed,
  because these are installed in a different path).

  Also backport the fix for security issue CVE-2018-10754, fixing a
  segfault, adding a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an
  error when a use-name is invalid syntax.

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