Comment 5 for bug 887344

> I don't see that the patches in screen alone make it difficult to
> maintain the package.

That's a nice straw man, but I don't believe that's what anyone said.

It's not about "the patches [...] alone" but the fact that GNU screen is
essentially orphaned upstream really ought to count for something.

> Does screen have more security issues than tmux?

Yes. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=gnu+screen

> while this is a server MIR, it should be accompanied by demotion of
> screen to universe, but it is currently still seeded on the desktop
> CD's. From a user point of view the change is not transparent as tmux
> does use other key bindings than screen.
>
> we should not have two of these tools in main per our policies.

Err, why? We have emacs and vim. We have GNOME and KDE. We have
python, perl, and ruby. etc.