Upcoming upgrade issues with GNU Screen for Wheezy

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi Release-Team,

I wanted to make you aware of an issue with screen which will very
likely be present when dist-upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy inside a
Screen session:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644788

If upstream doesn't add some option to let a screen 4.1.0 client
communicate with a screen 4.0.3 server, it won't be possible to
reattach to a running 4.0.3 screen session if screen has been upgraded
to 4.1.0 already.

I still have some hope, but if there's really no chance, this is IMHO
definitely something which should go into the release notes.

Possible suggestions for the release notes: Use tmux instead of screen
for the dist-upgrade. Not really a laudable note for screen, but I
have currently no better idea.

And even if upstream adds some backward compatibility command-line
option, this option should be mentioned in the Release Notes anyway

Anyway, I'll let you know when I uploaded a screen 4.1.0 package to
unstable and which options we have then.

		Regards, Axel
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