Your message dated Sat, 16 May 2026 23:02:17 +0200
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and subject line Documentation mismatch - resolved
has caused the Debian Bug report #972840,
regarding screen manpage documents "caption top", but it isn't supported
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972840: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972840
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Package: screen
Version: 4.8.0-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
The screen manual page documents a "caption top" option (as well as
"caption bottom"), but those options aren't actually supported. (I wish
they were; that's https://bugs.debian.org/548845 .)
-- Package-specific info:
File Existence and Permissions
------------------------------
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 540 Oct 24 12:28 /run
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 26 2017 /var/run -> /run
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 470024 May 25 18:50 /usr/bin/screen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 Oct 26 2017 /etc/tmpfiles.d/screen-cleanup.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Oct 26 2017
/lib/systemd/system/screen-cleanup.service -> /dev/null
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1222 May 21 2017 /etc/init.d/screen-cleanup
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 26 2017 /etc/rcS.d/S01screen-cleanup ->
../init.d/screen-cleanup
File contents
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### /etc/tmpfiles.d/screen-cleanup.conf
______________________________________________________________________
d /run/screen 1777 root utmp
______________________________________________________________________
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages screen depends on:
ii libc6 2.31-4
ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.17-1
ii libpam0g 1.3.1-5
ii libtinfo6 6.2+20200918-1
ii libutempter0 1.1.6-6
screen recommends no packages.
Versions of packages screen suggests:
pn byobu | screenie | iselect <none>
ii ncurses-term 6.2+20200918-1
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 5.0.1-1
Hi,
Thanks for the bug report.
This seems to have been a documentation mismatch in the 4.x series.
`caption top` was introduced in 5.0.0.
Current version in unstable now includes this capability - so the docs
now re-align.
Cheers,
Peter Dey
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