Re: New release

[Carsten Mattner]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Brian Kroth <address@hidden> wrote:
> Axel Beckert <address@hidden> 2012-07-31 16:45:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 08:43:25AM -0500, Brian Kroth wrote:
>>>
>>> Debian's experimental branch at least has a git based package now,
>>
>>
>> It's in Debian Unstable for about 1.5 months now and in Debian Testing
>> for about three weeks. :-)
>>
>>> from a quick glance, is the only major distro out there to have one.
>>
>>
>> Ubuntu will likely adopt the package from Debian, but maybe not for
>> their upcoming 12.10 release anymore.
>>
>> Thanks to Julien Cristau there is now a patch for the 4.0.3
>> interoperability issue:
>>
>>
>> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/screen.git;a=commitdiff;h=8700b331b4071c8158be4d6891cb7909859165a9
>>
>> It looks fine after some initial testing and I'll soon upload a
>> package to Debian Unstable including this patch. The package will
>> likely make it in the next Debian Stable release.
>>
>> While testing that patch, I though noticed a few unexpected things
>> with regards to locking screen which also happen without the patch.
>> More details later though as I'm currently busy with other things.
>
>
> That's great news!  The upgrade interoperability issue was holding me up
> from pushing that everywhere as well.  I will definitely test that out later
> in August once I have a chance.
>
> We have hundreds of machines that we use screen on, so for ease of
> maintenance purposes we tend to roll with whatever the distro has in their
> package system, rather than either trying to maintain our own package or
> keeping a git copy around everywhere.  For me, that's the main reason in
> wanting a "stable" release.  I know at least some, if not many, others are
> in a similar boat.  So yes, in that sense, it is a little like the OS X
> issue someone described earlier.
>
> Anyways, thanks a lot,
> Brian
>
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What's the release plans of the maintainers? News?