screen segfaults during setenv command

Bug #973653 reported by Andrey
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Bug Description

please update screen to newer version due to the following bug: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?24152

it still reproduces in oneiric as there is still "Screen version 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06" in the repo and this bug is fixed in 4.1.0

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Axel Beckert (xtaran) wrote : Re: [Bug 973653] [NEW] screen segfaults during setenv command

Hi,

Andrey wrote:
> please update screen to newer version due to the following bug:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?24152

There are tons of bugs fixed upstream[1], but there are also some
nasty new bugs introduced and I currently recommend to rather try to
backport such fixes until Debian bug #644788 ("screen 4.1.0 can’t
attach to a running/detached screen 4.0.3 session") is fixed upstream
(or workarounded in Debian's screen package which is the less
favourable alternative) if you care about users who run a dist-upgrade
inside a screen.

See [2] for the discussion about this on the upstream mailing list
which is distributed over several months in the mailing list archive.

> it still reproduces in oneiric as there is still "Screen version
> 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06" in the repo

And I'd expect it will so in Precise (but also expect it to be fixed
in Precise+1).

> and this bug is fixed in 4.1.0

... which hasn't even had a beta release yet for some reasons[3].

  [1] http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Debian/Git%20Snapshot%20of%20GNU%20Screen%20in%20Debian%20Experimental.futile
  [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2011-10/msg00002.html
  [3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2012-02/msg00004.html

  Regards, Axel
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Andrey (aol-nnov) wrote :

thanks for a quick reply, Axel!

i'll look into that bug too.

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