SRU patch attached.

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: byobu
  
  When using byobu automatically at login, it nicely autolaunches and
  reattaches to your detached session, if any. In essence, it /becomes/
  the remote environment, with the possibility to change colors to
  distinguish between remote hosts, etc.
  
  The issue is, when you want to detach (F6) or exit (type exit in all
  tabs) from the remote session, you end up on the underlying remote
  shell. From there you need to exit again to actually exit from the
  remote session. I find it counterintuitive : if byobu is your remote
  environment, it needs to run from the point you login to the point you
  logout. It's even dangerous: once users are used to recognize the
  "remote" system by looking at byobu colors, being stuck in the limbo
  underlying remote shell without that branding, some people will
  definitely think they are back on the local shell (I did, once).
  
  The behavior should be:
  local shell -> ssh remote -> (byobu experience) -> exit or detach -> back to 
local shell
  
  or
  local shell -> ssh remote -> (shell exp.) -> byobu -> (byobu exp.) -> exit or 
detach -> (shell exp.) -> exit ->back to local shell
  
  But not:
  local shell -> ssh remote -> (byobu experience) -> exit or detach -> (shell 
experience) -> exit -> back to local shell
+ 
+ ====
+ SRU
+  * IMPACT: the "double exit" is really annoying to some byobu users, and many 
people have complained about this over time
+  * HOW FIXED: this is trivially fixed on the auto launch line, with "&& exit 
0"; note that if byobu/screen crashes or exits non-zero, then the && will not 
be satisfied, and it won't exit 0
+  * TEST CASE: install byobu; configure to launch by default (sudo 
dpkg-reconfigure byobu); ssh in; type "exit" or press F6 to detach; note that 
you have to "exit" from the launching shell therafter; install the new package; 
try "exit" or F6; should exit/detach, and quit the launching session; if a user 
just wants a shell without byobu, do "ssh -t remotehost bash"
+  * REGRESSION POTENTIAL: none really; perhaps some education on the slightly 
new behavior (which I can do on the Byobu blog), but it's *so* preferential, I 
think it's extremely well justified
+ ===

** Attachment added: "out"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50275819/out

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Double-exit counterintuitive when running byobu at login
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/568306
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