Subject: Bug#3904: ncurses on mono linux console claims colour capability

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 96 02:58 BST

Package: ncurses3.0, base
Version; 1.9.9e-1, 1996_6_11

To reproduce: get a Linux system with a mono display - I have one with
an EGA console - and run dselect on it.

You'll see that it isn't really readable, because ncurses has told
dselect that it has colour.

There should be two linux terminfo entries - linux and linux-mono,
perhaps.  The linux-mono one should be in ncurses-base, and shouldn't
define the colour capabilities.  If the user didn't select colour
while doing the base install they should get linux-mono as their TERM
on the console.

Ian.