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 <[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]
