Bug#635188: ncurses-bin: /usr/bin/reset should behave more like on RHEL

Package: ncurses-bin
Version: 5.7+20081213-1
Severity: wishlist

Most of the time when my konsole terminal go hi-wire, the Debian reset
command is not able to restore it to a sensible state. On the other
hand, if I log into a RedHat Enterprise machine via ssh and run the
RHEL reset command, the terminal is reset to a sensible state.

I just ran into the issue again, and this time I took the time to look
at the package providing reset on RHEL. It is ncurses-5.5-24.20060715.

Please have a look at the Fedora/RHEL version of reset to see if the
Debian version can be changed to behave more like the one on RHEL.


Debian Release: 5.0.8
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ncurses-bin depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand

ncurses-bin recommends no packages.

ncurses-bin suggests no packages.




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