screen doesn't attempt to resume the youngest detached screen with -R option

[Uqbar]

From the manpage (man 1 screen):
       -R attempts to resume the youngest (in terms of creation time) detached screen session it
            finds. If successful, all other command-line options are ignored. If no detached ses‐
            sion exists, starts a new session using the specified options, just as if -R had not
            been specified. The option is set by default if screen is run as a login-shell (actually
            screen uses "-xRR" in that case). For combinations with the -d/-D option see there.
            Note: Time-based session selection is a Debian addition.

I have two detached sessions hanging:
[user@uqbar ~] screen -ls
There are screens on:
        22457.pts-1.uqbar (16/01/2012 11:36:31) (Detached)
        22042.pts-1.uqbar (16/01/2012 11:26:14) (Detached)
2 Sockets in /var/run/screen/S-user.

From a terminal I get the following:

[user@uqbar ~] screen -R
There are several suitable screens on:
        22457.pts-1.uqbar (16/01/2012 11:36:31) (Detached)
        22042.pts-1.uqbar (16/01/2012 11:26:14) (Detached)
Type "screen [-d] -r [pid.]tty.host" to resume one of them.

Instead of resuming any detached session.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: screen 4.0.3-14ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.25-generic-pae 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jan 16 11:44:36 2012
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: screen
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[James Page (james-page)]

jamespage@armstrong[ubuntu]:~$ screen -R
There are several suitable screens on:
 16640.pts-22.armstrong (31/07/14 12:45:23) (Detached)
 16190.pts-15.armstrong (31/07/14 12:44:03) (Detached)
Type "screen [-d] -r [pid.]tty.host" to resume one of them.

[James Page (james-page)]

Confirmed on 14.10 - but I'm not hopefully this will get resolved due to upstream inactivity.