Re: New release

[Brian Kroth]

Axel Beckert <address@hidden> 2012-07-31 16:45:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 08:43:25AM -0500, Brian Kroth wrote:
> > Debian's experimental branch at least has a git based package now,
>
> It's in Debian Unstable for about 1.5 months now and in Debian Testing
> for about three weeks. :-)
>
> > from a quick glance, is the only major distro out there to have one.
>
> Ubuntu will likely adopt the package from Debian, but maybe not for
> their upcoming 12.10 release anymore.
>
> Thanks to Julien Cristau there is now a patch for the 4.0.3
> interoperability issue:
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/screen.git;a=commitdiff;h=8700b331b4071c8158be4d6891cb7909859165a9
>
> It looks fine after some initial testing and I'll soon upload a
> package to Debian Unstable including this patch. The package will
> likely make it in the next Debian Stable release.
>
> While testing that patch, I though noticed a few unexpected things
> with regards to locking screen which also happen without the patch.
> More details later though as I'm currently busy with other things.

That's great news!  The upgrade interoperability issue was holding me up 
from pushing that everywhere as well.  I will definitely test that out 
later in August once I have a chance.

We have hundreds of machines that we use screen on, so for ease of 
maintenance purposes we tend to roll with whatever the distro has in 
their package system, rather than either trying to maintain our own 
package or keeping a git copy around everywhere.  For me, that's the 
main reason in wanting a "stable" release.  I know at least some, if not 
many, others are in a similar boat.  So yes, in that sense, it is a 
little like the OS X issue someone described earlier.

Anyways, thanks a lot,
Brian

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