Bug#859378: unblock: screen/4.5.0-5 (pre-approval)

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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Axel Beckert:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Dear Release Team,
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/856824 (which I already fixed in experimental
> a while ago) seems to be more severe than I initially thought. If
> unfixed, it can lead to a race condition at boot time when running
> with systemd as init system. See Marc's explanations at
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=856824#24
> 
> So I would upload screen/4.5.0-5 with the same fix as already applied
> in experimental (and with no issues or bug reports there so far) to
> unstable, too, if you're ok with it.
> 
> I've prepared the upload in the "stretch" branch at
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/screen.git/log/?h=stretch
> 
> The diff as currently committed to git (still at UNRELEASED on
> purpose) is following, git I recommend to checkout the git
> repository and run the following command instead:
> 
>   git show 360c7cbfbe4dd7f2dac029b371da973731e4c2ad --color-words=.
> 
> It makes clear that all of the commit is only removing the string
> "var/" over and over again. Nevertheless here's the classic diff for
> the change:
> 
> [...]


Ack, please go ahead, thanks.

~Niels