Hi Ian, Ian Jackson wrote: > Could you apply the patch in the meantime, though ? It is definitely > an improvement.
I'm currently preparing an upload of the new upstream release 4.9.0. It doesn't contain a fix for that, but upstream hinted that they might include a fix in the next release — which I guess will become 4.9.1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2022-01/msg00020.html So I applied the patch to 4.9.0 and tested the result as documented in this bug report, see the branch debian-bug-1000138 on Salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/screen/-/tree/debian-bug-1000138 Unfortunately the relevant error message "Argument count or length limit exceeded" does not show up with the patch. The only thing I see when the bug is triggered with the patch is "[screen is terminating]" immediately (instead of waiting the five seconds given in the script). So I won't include it for now, but I'm open to include a patch if it outputs a visible error message to the end-user. But I actually do hope that upstream will have a proper fix soon for this issue. I'd also include an upstream fix in the package e.g. if the next release isn't ready yet, but a patch already available in the upstream git repository. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
