screen should work around old screen-profiles diversion
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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screen (Debian) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
screen (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: screen
As per bug #727738 in dpkg, I am stuck with an old /usr/bin/screen left behind by a screen-profiles package:
mas90@callisto:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/screen
diversion by screen-profiles from: /usr/bin/screen
diversion by screen-profiles to: /usr/bin/
screen: /usr/bin/screen
mas90@callisto:~$ dpkg -L screen-profiles
Package `screen-profiles' is not installed.
mas90@callisto:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/screen /usr/bin/
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 376032 2009-07-06 06:37 /usr/bin/screen
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 376112 2010-06-18 22:13 /usr/bin/
Whilst this isn't screen's fault, it would be useful for the time being if Ubuntu's screen package detected this brokenness (which I suspect to be the cause of various other bugs reported in screen) and reverted the diversion if screen-profiles is not installed.
Changed in screen (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Incomplete |
Furthermore, the /usr/bin/screen I'm left with has a tendency to segfault every few days (bug #644825 and/or bug #375625?).