The following reply was made to PR pkg/34040; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: pkg-manager@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/34040
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:48:39 +0300

 >  Is this a bug with NetBSD curses also?
 
 I think NO.
 
 from initscr(3):
 
    The curses session must be initialised by calling initscr() which...
    This function call must be, with few exceptions, the first
    Curses library call made.  The exception to this rule is the
    newterm() call which may be called prior to initscr().
 
 newterm() function is not called by aumix at all.
 
 -- 
 Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.