whiptail

Binary packages in oldstable

Description

Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts

Dependencies amd64

Depends

libc6 (>= 2.34), libnewt0.52 (>= 0.52.23), libpopt0 (>= 1.14), libslang2 (>= 2.2.4)

Source package

Name

newt

Version

0.52.23-1

Maintainer

Alastair McKinstry

Homepage

https://pagure.io/newt

Repository

https://salsa.debian.org:/mckinstry/newt.git

Bugs (31 open)

Each bug opens in the Debian bug tracking system, which holds its message log and current state.

• #1025163 important whiptail 0.52.22-1: checklist and radiolist are broken on bugs.debian.org pending source newt reported 30 Nov 2022 updated 30 Nov 2022
• #557019 important Problems with ANSI-colors on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Juhapekka Tolvanen reported 19 Nov 2009 updated 21 Nov 2009
• #1134773 normal whiptail: misaligned Priority: "important" in override, "optional" in d/control on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Gioele Barabucci reported 24 Apr 2026 updated 24 Apr 2026
• #1106419 normal whiptail --menu/checklist breaks multi-byte character after 199 bytes on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by MichaIng reported 24 May 2025 updated 24 May 2025
• #1084149 normal whiptail 0.52.23 --infobox fails to display bottom 2 lines of text on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Luke Niebergall reported 5 Oct 2024 updated 5 Oct 2024
• #1010059 normal whiptail doesn't react to input in sudo shell pipe since Bookworm on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by MichaIng reported 23 Apr 2022 updated 23 Apr 2022
• #998845 normal whiptail: broken display if width >= 513 on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by nix reported 8 Nov 2021 updated 8 Nov 2021
• #945320 normal whiptail --scrolltext bars start below text/are hidden on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by MichaIng reported 23 Nov 2019 updated 18 Jun 2025
• #640749 normal debconf: Does not display correctly in non 80x24/5 terminal on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Daniel Dickinson reported 7 Sep 2011 updated 7 Sep 2011
• #406278 normal whiptail manpage issues on bugs.debian.org pending source newt reported 10 Jan 2007 updated 16 Dec 2012
• #364739 normal Display problems with serial console on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Alastair McKinstry reported 25 Apr 2006 updated 18 Sep 2006
• #324901 normal Documentation is not sufficent for whiptail verions 0.51.6-20 (Debian Sarge) on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Allyn, MarkX A reported 24 Aug 2005 updated 18 Sep 2006
• #320078 normal whiptail is unable to handle special characters not present in current locale on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Micha Lenk reported 26 Jul 2005 updated 18 Sep 2006
• #306856 normal program terminates when terminal resizes && gauge is running on bugs.debian.org forwarded source newt by Eduard Bloch reported 21 Apr 2005 updated 11 Jan 2007 forwarded to Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> upstream
• #303642 normal whiptail eats CPU when it becomes non-interactive on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Filipus Klutiero reported 7 Apr 2005 updated 24 Aug 2007
• #265785 normal dpkg-reconfigure: users are not allowed to interrupt or suspend on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Dan Jacobson reported 15 Aug 2004 updated 18 Sep 2006
• #136030 normal whiptail: resets cursor attributes on exit on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Francesco Potorti` reported 27 Feb 2002 updated 18 Sep 2006 helpupstream
• #86133 normal debconf: dialog: TERM variable is not being used, neither is user's xterm default colors on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Jeff Sheinberg reported 16 Feb 2001 updated 18 Sep 2006
• #55182 normal whiptail: --infobox doesn't work well in an xterm on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Joey Hess reported 15 Jan 2000 updated 18 Sep 2006 upstream
• #1094207 minor whiptail.1: Some remarks and a patch with editorial changes for this man page on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Bjarni Ingi Gislason reported 26 Jan 2025 updated 26 Jan 2025 patch
• #733298 minor whiptail: Typo in manpage on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by Simon Hollenbach reported 28 Dec 2013 updated 28 Dec 2013
• #579906 wishlist whiptail: Add sensible run-time defaults for '--msgbox', et al. on bugs.debian.org pending source newt by A. Costa reported 2 May 2010 updated 2 May 2010
• #570400 wishlist <Ok> should be <OK> to be correct English on bugs.debian.org pending source newt reported 18 Feb 2010 updated 18 Feb 2010
• #570398 wishlist why not allow ^C interrupts, or at least ^Z suspend on bugs.debian.org pending source newt reported 18 Feb 2010 updated 3 Mar 2010
• #570394 wishlist better error message if bad $TERM on bugs.debian.org pending source newt reported 18 Feb 2010 updated 3 Mar 2010

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