Hi Brian, just a short thumbs up that I'm working on an updated screen package which I'll upload to either Unstable or Experimental (not yet sure, not much tested yet).
Brian Kroth wrote: >>> I noticed the other day that Fedora 15 is shipping with a git >>> snapshotted version of screen, which seems to work fairly well. >>> Included in it are increased MAXWIN sizes, the ability to group >>> windows and search for them in the window list by name, as well as >>> many other very helpful features. >> >> Well, if you take a newer snapshot, some more bugs reported in Debian >> (like the crash when resizing to one row height with having a caption) >> would be fixed, too, see http://bugs.debian.org/532240)... >> >> But the stability is of course also an argument, at least on the long >> run. > > Yeah, that was my take as well. In fact the main reason I grabbed this > one and not a newer one is because that's what Fedora was using, so I > figured 1) they already vetted it to a certain degree, 2) there's some > other community backing behind it and consistency might be good there, > 3) I have no idea how I'd find another "stable" snapshot from screen's > git repo. Anyways, there may be a better option out there. Anyway, during the past months there were so few commits in http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git so that I expect it to be quite stable. I'm currently working on packaging a snapshot of the current HEAD based on your packaging work plus changes from Samuel Thibault in version 4.0.3-14+hurd.1 (porter upload). >>> Please consider including support for it. >> >> Since the current maintainer of screen in Debian is quite busy in real >> life at the moment, I'm thinking about doing an Non-Maintainer Upload >> (NMU) for screen. I'm currently thinking about becoming co-maintainer of screen as I still prefer it over tmux. I though know that I won't be able to handle it alone. (Adam Lazur, who's currently listed as co-maintainer, requested his removal from Uploaders as he retired.) So any further (co-) maintainers are welcome, also with regards to Jan's mail. > Your packaging work comes in quite handy there, thanks! :-) > > No problem. I just happened to have a free day from work and school for > once and decided I would tackle a wish list project of my own and pass > the work along. Unfortunately, I doubt I'd be able to handle full time > support of this either. I'd certainly try and lend a hand where > possible though. Thanks! Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
