gnu screen incompatibility?

[Andriy Gapon]

On 08/07/2016 09:50, Greg Rivers wrote:
> On Friday, July 08, 2016 09:43:17 Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> It seems that screen 4.4.0_1 can not connect to sessions started with
>> the previous version 4.3.x.  At least that was the case for me.
>>
> I noticed that too, but:
> 
> $ pkg info -D screen
> screen-4.4.0_1:
> Always:
> =============================================================
> 
> As of GNU Screen 4.4.0:
> 
> Note that there was fix to screen message structure field
> responsible for $TERM handling, making it impossible
> to attach to older versions.
> 
> =============================================================

Oh, I overlooked this...
I checked UPDATING and there was nothing related in it.  It would be
nice to get this kind of a message before a package is actually
upgraded, not after, as happens with pkg.

-- 
Andriy Gapon