Your message dated Wed, 06 May 2026 22:12:08 +0200
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and subject line utmp-related bugs no longer applicable from Screen v5
has caused the Debian Bug report #609985,
regarding screen: Incorrect formatting of IPv6 entries in utmp
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609985: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609985
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: screen
Version: 4.0.3-14
Severity: normal
Tags: ipv6
screen chops IPv6 addresses at the first colon, when formatting utmp
entries.
$ who
leo pts/1 2011-01-08 18:55 (2620:S.0)
....
leo pts/6 2011-01-14 16:15 (2620:0:1042:2::xx:yy)
The former is a screen login, the latter is a direct ssh.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages screen depends on:
ii dpkg 1.15.8.7 Debian package management system
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-4 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
screen recommends no packages.
screen suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/screenrc changed:
deflogin on
vbell on
vbell_msg " Wuff ---- Wuff!! "
defscrollback 1024
bind ^k
bind ^\
bind \\ quit
bind K kill
bind I login on
bind O login off
bind } history
termcapinfo vt100 dl=5\E[M
hardstatus off
termcapinfo xterm*|rxvt*|kterm*|Eterm* hs:ts=\E]0;:fs=\007:ds=\E]0;\007
hardstatus string "%h%? users: %u%?"
termcapinfo xterm*|linux*|rxvt*|Eterm* OP
termcapinfo xterm 'is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;4;6l'
defnonblock 5
debug off
-- debconf information excluded
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
As of package version 5.0.1-1, Debian builds screen with --disable-utmp,
so screen no longer writes/manages utmp/wtmp.
Closing these reports as not applicable to current package behaviour.
--- End Message ---
