I do not want to add any further patches to Debian's screen package which makes it differ from upstream behaviour more than it already does. (Of course, it's a different thing if issues are caused by existing patches.)
And IMHO workarounds for issues in other packages do not belong into shell startup files either. (Saying this with my Debian Zsh Team hat on.) Additionally, after the long and thorough discussion in the Debian bug report (and additional discussions on the ncurses-term topic on IRC), I'm convinced that there is no perfect solution. If you change something to make screen usable in scenario X, it will make people using screen in scenario Y unhappy and vice versa. Even moving definitions from ncurses-term to ncurses-base doesn't make things better by default: It may help to SSH from older systems with ncurses-term to newer systems with just ncurses-base installed. But it will also cause issues for people SSHing from newer systems with just ncurses-base installed to older systems with an older version of ncurses-base installed. (Not having ncurses-term at all and all definitions in ncurses-base might look like a solution, but then it will which definitions are in that package at which version...) So yes, IMHO the best thing we can do is document the issue. (And improvements for the documentation are always welcome. :-) If you really think a behavioural change is needed in screen, then please make according suggestions upstream and submit patches there. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1726826 Title: screen 256 colour TERM setting breaks logging into older hosts To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1726826/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
