screen should at most Suggests: byobu

[LaMont Jones]

Binary package hint: screen

There is no reason on this planet for screen to Recommend: byobu.

Nothing in screen depends even slightly on byobu being present.

Looking at policy:

Recommends

    This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
    The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations.

Suggests

    This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and the user that the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is perfectly reasonable.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Lamont,

I respectfully disagree.

I think Ubuntu users (though perhaps not Debian users) would expect
screen and byobu to be installed together at this point.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package screen - 4.0.3-14ubuntu6

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screen (4.0.3-14ubuntu6) natty; urgency=low

  * Suggest byobu, rather than Depend. LP: #681831
 -- LaMont Jones <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:32:13 -0700

[LaMont Jones (lamont)]

Your response to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/byobu/+bug/680657 is in conflict with your assertion that users expect byobu to be installed with screen, since they apparently don't even know it exists.

Fixed in 4.0.3-14ubuntu6

[Charlie Schluting ☃ (cschluti)]

I don't know anyone that would expect/want byobu to be installed along with screen.
This doesn't make any sense to me either, sorry :)

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

The MOTD message no longer exists.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Disappointed with this uploaded :-(

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Very disappointed with this upload.