[Bug 1581186] Re: mtr 0.86 doesn't respect terminal colors

Brian Murray brian at ubuntu.com
Thu May 12 19:57:58 UTC 2016


Hello Adam, or anyone else affected,

Accepted mtr into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mtr/0.86-1ubuntu0.1 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 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 to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

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

** Changed in: mtr (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  mtr 0.86 doesn't respect terminal colors

Status in mtr package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in mtr source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in mtr package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  [ SRU Justification ]
  mtr 0.86 added more colours to the curses output, but this broke how it blends in with dark terminals with non-standard colours, and light terminals in general.

  While this is purely cosmetic, it's pretty ugly compared to mtr 0.85,
  and the fix is trivial and trivially verified as correct (or, more
  correct than 0.86) on several different terminal colour schemes.  As a
  man who uses mtr daily, it's been driving me mildly nuts.

  [ Solution ]
  Two commits upstream fix this, so it's a little more readable again on light terminals, and doesn't mess with non-standard terminals:

  63a1f1493bfbaf7e55eb7e20b3791fc8b14cf92d
  7571201cf7a3394e0dcd2b037aba1836089cc084

  [ Test Case ]
  Run old and new mtr on a variety of terminal schemes (default gnome-terminal, inverted gnome-terminal, default and inverted xterm, etc) to see if it's (a) as readable or more than before, (b) now shows sanely default bg colours, (c) works correctly with transparent backgrounds.

  The first point is somewhat subjective, though a quick test here shows
  that on "xterm -rv", the bold text has switched from some barely-
  readable grey-on-white to something approaching black-on-white, so I
  think this is moving in a winning direction.

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