RE: Bug#1135587: screen: screen no longer works on big-endian systems

Hello John,
There is already a fix provided as for this as part of https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67607.

Pranav has verified this fix on S390x , it is working as expected.

Regards,
Giridhar Trivedi

From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2026 at 12:37 PM
To: Pranav P <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>, Debian S/390 Team <[email protected]>, debian-powerpc <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Bug#1135587: screen: screen no longer works on big-endian systems

Hi Pranav,

On Tue, 2026-05-12 at 06:55 +0000, Pranav P wrote:
> Just to be sure. Was the severity raised to serious just as to warn the migration of the
> package to testing or is there something that isn't working properly with the patch?

As indicated by my previous mail, I have set the severity to serious so that the package
won't be updated to 5.x in testing until this particular bug has been fixed. This ensures
that screen is broken on s390x in unstable only.

Adrian

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