Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Hi together,
sorry for the late reply, I wasn't subscribed to this RFH bug report
(but I am now :-) and as it's not a bug report against the screen
package but the wnpp pseudo package, I didn't receive your replies,
just found them by accident yesterday (and Francesco pointed me to
them today, too :-).
Francesco Apollonio wrote:
> I'm interested to help the packaging of screen, if you still need help
> please contact me.
L. Alberto Giménez wrote:
> I use this package quite often, but I haven't looked into the code
> but if you still need help and Francesco's help is not enough, feel
> free to contact me.
Jeffrey Vandenborne wrote:
> I'm very interested in contributing if you still need help so
> contact me anytime if you like.
Since it is not so obvious, here are some facts about the current
state of the package:
The package in Debian Experimental represents the current state.
Please use that version when looking at code or trying to reproduce
bugs.
It uses the "3.0 (quilt)" source format and should be uptodate with
regards to Standards-Version, etc. and also should have just
minor Lintian warnings. See also my blog posting about it:
http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Debian/Git%20Snapshot%20of%20GNU%20Screen%20in%20Debian%20Experimental.futile
So please ignore what's currently in Debian Sid. :-)
Unfortunately http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/screen.html shows mostly
meta-information about the package in Sid, so most information there
is outdated with regards to packaging.
The only reason why I haven't uploaded the current package to Sid is
http://bugs.debian.org/644788 -- but happily Upstream works on that
issue already, see
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2012-02/msg00004.html
:-)
So for now we don't need to invest much time in writing DebConf
templates informing the user about the incompibility and the
possibility to use /tmp/screen-4.0.3-bin or so instead which would be
copied there by the preinst script. (This kind of work may become
important again if upstream doesn't manage to get 4.1.0 clients talk
with 4.0.3 servers.)
See http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/screen.git for
the current state of packaging and
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=screen;dist=experimental
for the bugs which are still open in Debian Experimental.
To stay uptodate what the others do with regards to bug reports, it's
best to subscribe to screen's "package mailinglist" (i.e. receive all
mails the package maintainer would receive, including bug report
stuff) at the bottom of http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/screen.html
With regards to what could be done to help screen in Debian (and to
some degree also in downstream distributions like Ubuntu):
* Some further bug triage would be good.
- Checking if bugs open in Experimental are also still present in
Experimental. I suspect that I still haven't found all of them. :-)
- Checking if the attached patches from bugs still apply or maybe
even already have been applied by Upstream.
- Tagging bugs where appropriate, see
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags for the available tags
and their meaning.
- Checking which bugs are (or should be) tagged "upstream" (but not
fixed-upstream or fixed in Experimental :-), but are not listed
on https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=screen (only 50 bugs per
page, use the search function)
-> Create a bug report in Upstream's bug tracker, refer to the
Debian bug report in the report's text.
-> Set the forwarded address of the Debian bug report to the URL
of the Upstream bug report.
* If you have some experience with C, check if there are bugs where
you think you can write a fix for.
* 4.1.0 doesn't seem to work properly on at least kfreebsd-i386 (but
likely the same problem on kfreebsd-amd64) at a first glance.
I though haven't investigated further yet and a bug report still has
to be written.
* If you have a Launchpad account another good thing would be to look
through the bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/screen
and see which have corresponding bugs in Debian which are not yet
linked in Launchpad and link them.
- If the corresponding Debian bug report is fixed in Experimental,
or the bug is not Ubuntu-specific and fixed by the version in
Debian Experimental the bug report in Ubuntu can be put at least
in the state fix-committed, maybe with a comment that it's fixed
in Debian Experimental.
I likely have forgotten something where help could be needed, too, so
if you think that's the case, feel free to say so. :-)
Thanks for your interest in helping with Debian's screen package!
Regards, Axel
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