Bug#641867: screen version bump (4.1.0 20101110git066b098)
Hi, Brian Kroth wrote: Reattaching to a running 4.0.3 screen does not work, it just hangs. killhupping the attaching screen, downgrading and then trying to reattach helps. :-/ As of now I have no idea where this comes from as I found nothing obviously related in the upstream changelog. I also found this. I figured it was somewhat to be expected due to a fairly major version change. Though I also don't know what else to do about it. I just posted this issue to the screen-devel mailing-list, let's hope they have any clue what could be the reason: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2011-10/msg2.html strace screen -r did not reveal any useful information as screen seems to behave differently when being straced. :-/ Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, 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 debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#641867: screen version bump (4.1.0 20101110git066b098)
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: There is a package available here: http://noone.org/debian/ It's not yet 100% finished, but should be already close to what I would upload. I did some more testing myself and found quite a showstopper: Reattaching to a running 4.0.3 screen does not work, it just hangs. killhupping the attaching screen, downgrading and then trying to reattach helps. :-/ As of now I have no idea where this comes from as I found nothing obviously related in the upstream changelog. You can check out the package source here: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/screen.git Additionally I noticed in the upstream changelog that upstream fixed even more bugs reported in Debian and Ubuntu than I already mentioned in the changelog. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, 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 debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#641867: screen version bump (4.1.0 20101110git066b098)
Axel Beckert a...@debian.org 2011-10-05 14:02: Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: There is a package available here: http://noone.org/debian/ It's not yet 100% finished, but should be already close to what I would upload. I did some more testing myself and found quite a showstopper: Reattaching to a running 4.0.3 screen does not work, it just hangs. killhupping the attaching screen, downgrading and then trying to reattach helps. :-/ As of now I have no idea where this comes from as I found nothing obviously related in the upstream changelog. I also found this. I figured it was somewhat to be expected due to a fairly major version change. Though I also don't know what else to do about it. You can check out the package source here: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/screen.git Additionally I noticed in the upstream changelog that upstream fixed even more bugs reported in Debian and Ubuntu than I already mentioned in the changelog. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, 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 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#641867: screen version bump (4.1.0 20101110git066b098)
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 a...@debian.org, 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 debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#641867: screen version bump (4.1.0 20101110git066b098)
Excellent. Let me know when it's there and I'll do some testing. Thanks, Brian Axel Beckert a...@debian.org 2011-10-04 23:14: 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). signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#641867: screen version bump (4.1.0 20101110git066b098)
Hi Brian, Brian Kroth wrote: Excellent. Let me know when it's there and I'll do some testing. You can check out the package source here: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/screen.git There is a package available here: http://noone.org/debian/ It's not yet 100% finished, but should be already close to what I would upload. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, 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 debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#641867: screen version bump (4.1.0 20101110git066b098)
Axel Beckert a...@debian.org 2011-09-17 12:02: Hi Brian, Brian Kroth wrote: Package: screen Version: 4.1.0-20101110git066b098 Severity: wishlist The screen developers have been working on new features for screen for a while, though an official release keeps getting put off. Yeah. When I saw your mail, I first thought Yay! 4.1.0 is out! -- and then noticed that you're talking about snapshots... ;-) Yeah, I wish. I would look into tmux more since I hear it has a bit more active momentum and features behind it, but I know screen well at this point and don't really have time to learn new tricks just yet. Really, I justed wanted searchable window lists so I don't end up with more windows for the same host when I can't find it right away. Too many VMs :} 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. Attached (shortly) is a first crack attempt at packaging that version for Debian. I went through the slew of Debian patches and kept/fixed the ones that worked and still looked to be needed, and weeded out the ones that have been applied upstream. One small remark after a first look: If you use the upcoming version number als base, you should use a tilde (~) directly after it otherwise finally uploading the released 4.1.0 would be quite complicated: 4.1.0~20101110git066b098 Additionally the dash which was included at that point before would have marked 20101110git066b098 as Debian revision which should just indicate packaging changes. And at least the part git066b098 wouldn't be packaging changes. And dates for revisions are very uncommon. So the right version number for the package would be 4.1.0~20101110git066b098-1 Thanks for the tips. I thought something like that or + was probably more appropriate, but couldn't remember the exact details. 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. 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. BTW, any idea when 4.1.0 will be out finally? Unfortunately no, I just lurk on their mailing list waiting for news of a release, but I think the main dev there is also fairly busy with real life. Brian signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#641867: screen version bump (4.1.0 20101110git066b098)
Hi Brian, Brian Kroth wrote: Package: screen Version: 4.1.0-20101110git066b098 Severity: wishlist The screen developers have been working on new features for screen for a while, though an official release keeps getting put off. Yeah. When I saw your mail, I first thought Yay! 4.1.0 is out! -- and then noticed that you're talking about snapshots... ;-) 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. Attached (shortly) is a first crack attempt at packaging that version for Debian. I went through the slew of Debian patches and kept/fixed the ones that worked and still looked to be needed, and weeded out the ones that have been applied upstream. One small remark after a first look: If you use the upcoming version number als base, you should use a tilde (~) directly after it otherwise finally uploading the released 4.1.0 would be quite complicated: 4.1.0~20101110git066b098 Additionally the dash which was included at that point before would have marked 20101110git066b098 as Debian revision which should just indicate packaging changes. And at least the part git066b098 wouldn't be packaging changes. And dates for revisions are very uncommon. So the right version number for the package would be 4.1.0~20101110git066b098-1 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. Your packaging work comes in quite handy there, thanks! :-) BTW, any idea when 4.1.0 will be out finally? Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, 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 debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#641867: screen version bump (4.1.0 20101110git066b098)
Hi Axel, hi Brian, 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. Your packaging work comes in quite handy there, thanks! :-) thanks to both of you for your work on getting the screen package back into shape. I'm indeed quite busy (yay, at work on Saturdays) and unsure when I will be able to invest enough time into Debian again to wipe the dust off my packages myself. I'm afraid this won't happen in the forseeable future. Due to this, if someone wants to take over, I'm all for it. Thanks again and best wishes, Jan signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#641867: screen version bump (4.1.0 20101110git066b098)
Package: screen Version: 4.1.0-20101110git066b098 Severity: wishlist The screen developers have been working on new features for screen for a while, though an official release keeps getting put off. 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. Attached (shortly) is a first crack attempt at packaging that version for Debian. I went through the slew of Debian patches and kept/fixed the ones that worked and still looked to be needed, and weeded out the ones that have been applied upstream. Please consider including support for it. Let me know if there are any questions. Thanks, Brian -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (120, 'testing'), (110, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages screen depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.8.11 Debian package management system ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l screen recommends no packages. screen suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
