From: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 10:47:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix terminal garbage in Debian Installer over serial line

Reviewed-By: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/857808
Bug: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50588
---
 termcap.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/termcap.c b/termcap.c
index 57ed43a6d096..1b15e63a3192 100644
--- a/termcap.c
+++ b/termcap.c
@@ -486,6 +486,8 @@ int he;
 
   D_tcinited = 1;
   MakeTermcap(0);
+  /* Make sure libterm uses external term properties for our tputs() calls.  */
+  e_tgetent(tbuf, D_termname);
 #ifdef MAPKEYS
   CheckEscape();
 #endif