Package: tmux
Version: 3.1-1
Severity: serious

Hi,

on apt upgrade in testing today I was greeted by this NEWS entry from
tmux saying:

  The server protocol was changed in an incompatible manner, we recommend
  that you close any open tmux sessions before proceeding with the upgrade.

I don't think that's acceptable.  Running upgrades inside screen or
tmux is a best practice, so IMO it needs to work, and people need to be
able to re-attach to existing sessions across the upgrade.  And even if
it was acceptable to do this, NEWS.Debian is displayed 1) too late for
the user to do anything about it, 2) in English.

See #683228 for what seems like a similar issue in screen back in the
day.

Cheers,
Julien

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 
'testing'), (101, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages tmux depends on:
ii  libc6           2.30-4
ii  libevent-2.1-7  2.1.11-stable-1
ii  libtinfo6       6.2-1
ii  libutempter0    1.1.6-6

tmux recommends no packages.

tmux suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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