This bug was fixed in the package screen - 4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9 --------------- screen (4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9) unstable; urgency=low * Build-Conflict against libelf-dev on non-linux (Closes: #684386) * Allow /dev/console to be a symlink. (Closes: #701173) Thanks to Igor Pashev for the report and patch. * screen-cleanup init.d script: Label /var/run/screen for SE Linux (Closes: #680360) * Add a package with debugging symbols (Closes: #715170) * Ensure that the title prompt can only appear once. (Closes: #625866) * No more pass --update-rcd-params='start 70 S .' to dh_installinit. The LSB headers of the init script already contain all necesssary information. (Closes: #717553) * Expand 50increase-max-TERM-length.patch to also allow larger terminal type names when using the "term" command interactively from inside screen or from .screenrc. (Closes: #491812) -- Axel Beckert