[2014-04-17 20:26:56 -1000] Gaetan Bisson: > Title: screen-4.2.0 cannot reattach older instances > > Users of the screen program will not be able to reattach older instances > after upgrading to version 4.2.0; this is due to upstream having made a > lot of changes to the internals, and switching from named pipes to > sockets for communication. Please ensure your current screen instances > are not anymore needed before upgrading.
Grrr. That happens again with screen-4.2.1. Upstream changed the screen structure to fix the "long terminal name" issue; we used to patch for that one, but upstream's changes fix more bugs and change more things. We could: - patch everything back to how it was in arch's 4.2.0-1 - drop our patch and build screen vanilla Of course I much prefer the latter (package in [testing]), except it means another break: no older screen instances will be reattachable with screen-4.2.1. How about yet another (shorter) announcement? Title: screen-4.2.1 cannot reattach older instances either Upstream improvements in screen-4.2.1 will make users unable to reattach instances created with version 4.2.0 or older. Please upgrade to screen-4.2.1-1 only when they are unneeded. Apologies again for the inconvenience. Cheers. -- Gaetan
