Comment by francescovv

> Debian (...) are distributing a series of patches to the Makefile.

Where do you see that, sorry? I'm looking at the "Download Source Package" section here:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/stterm

...and the only patch on there is debian/patches/0001-fix-buffer-overflow-when-handling-long-composed-inpu.patch, which doesn't touch Makefie.