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I can confirm that M-x xterm in emacs24 sets TERM to eterm-color when
launched out of the box on Ubuntu 15.04. (In the regular terminal, it's
simply xterm.)

Whether this should be fixed in the packaging (make it not set eterm-
color) or dependencies (pull in ncurses-term) is an open question,
though.

Inside xterm, e.g. "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow dictionaries-common" is
a way to trigger the bug.  With ncurses-term installed, I get a "nice"
colorful ncurses dialog box; without it, dpkg-reconfigure aborts.

Another obvious workaround is to specify a nongraphical Debconf front-
end.

sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=readline dpkg-reconfigure -plow dictionaries-common

** Changed in: emacs24 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Missing dependency: emacs does not pull any package providing
  /usr/share/terminfo/e/eterm-color

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