Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Hi Ben,
Ben Finney wrote:
> > B) Take care that nobody upgrades the screen package while running
> > inside a screen without being aware of the possible problems. There
> > are few ideas how to implement this:
> >
> > 1) Mention it in the release notes that screen has to be upgraded
> > to the very end of the dist-upgrade process if the dist-upgrade
> > is running inside screen.
> >
> > Disadvantage: Many admins don't read the release notes.
> […]
> > 3) Tell people via the release notes that they should not run the
> > dist-upgrade inside screen, but inside tmux instead.
> >
> > Disadvantage: Many admins don't read the release notes.
>
> The release notes (by which I assume you mean ‘changelog’ and
> ‘changelog.Debian’)
Nope. I mean the release notes as published by Debian when releasing a
new stable release, i.e.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes tracked at
http://bugs.debian.org/release-notes
> but I think the ‘NEWS.Debian’ file is intended for this sort of “you
> need to know this before upgrading the package to this version”
> information.
It's already in there since the last upload to experimental.
Regards, Axel
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