[2014-04-17 20:26:56 -1000] Gaetan Bisson:

Title: screen-4.2.0 cannot reattach older instances

Users of the screen program will not be able to reattach older instances after upgrading to version 4.2.0; this is due to upstream having made a lot of changes to the internals, and switching from named pipes to sockets for communication. Please ensure your current screen instances are not anymore needed before upgrading.

Grrr. That happens again with screen-4.2.1. Upstream changed the screen structure to fix the "long terminal name" issue; we used to patch for that one, but upstream's changes fix more bugs and change more things. We could: - patch everything back to how it was in arch's 4.2.0-1 - drop our patch and build screen vanilla Of course I much prefer the latter (package in [testing]), except it means another break: no older screen instances will be reattachable with screen-4.2.1. How about yet another (shorter) announcement? Title: screen-4.2.1 cannot reattach older instances either Upstream improvements in screen-4.2.1 will make users unable to reattach instances created with version 4.2.0 or older. Please upgrade to screen-4.2.1-1 only when they are unneeded. Apologies again for the inconvenience. Cheers. -- Gaetan