Control: merge 792799 820858
Axel Beckert writes:
> Reasoning (and request) for the change from optional to standard can
> be found at https://bugs.debian.org/783524.
>
> Quoting from there:
>> screen is small and commonly required on a wide variety of systems where
>> only the standard system utilities (and openssh-server) are installed,
>> yet it needs to be installed separately each time. (Most frustrating
>> with newly installed virtual machines around the time of a release when
>> new images need testing.)
>>
>> Please seek a change of priority to standard.
Hmm, given there are two alternatives (screen, tmux) which both have
quite comparable installation size, I'm wondering which one (if any)
should be included in the default install.
Installation size (`apt install` in a unstable sbuild chroot):
screen: 583 kB of archives. 1004 kB of additional disk space
tmux: 420 kB of archives. 1022 kB of additional disk space
(Includes libevent-2.0-5 libutempter0)
Features:
screen: Can talk to serial console.
tmux: Does work after switch users (to non-root)
I admit I personally prefer tmux as it keeps working after switching to
another user.
Ansgar
