Hi Sven,

Sven Joachim wrote:
> If libutempter-dev is installed on the build system, configure uses it
> by default to build screen with utempter support.  At least the sh4
> package of screen, apparently uploaded by a porter, depends on
> libutempter0.

Thanks for this bug report and for #819789.

> Unfortunately there is no "--disable-utempter" switch for configure, and
> while enabling utempter support certainly makes sense, it probably won't
> suffice to avoid installing screen setgid utmp, since screen needs write
> access to the /run/screen directory.

I wonder, if this issue may be the cause of
https://bugs.debian.org/471763 which I never was able to reproduce,
but still seems to happen for people nowadays in unstable.

Then again none of the mails in that bug report mentions utempter. Hrm.

                Regards, Axel
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