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@Reylak hope you get a reply soon.

I contacted the maintainer by e-mail regarding maintaining the package, or maybe disowning it. Let's see if we have a reply :)

Hello, based on the PKGBUILD of the officially maintained package in "extra" and previous comments, I got this patch that makes screen compile, work and with truecolor support (provided you add truecolor on to your .screenrc). There are also a few improvements to the PKGBUILD; in particular, it fixes the package name to "screen-git".

From b6c7d9ee005fa6ab171eb0ad1a7fd3f7d82418e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathieu Bacou <mathieu@bacou.me>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:52:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Upgrade and fix PKGBUILD.

Implement suggestions from the AUR, and upgrade the file its counterpart
for the extra repository.

* remove prefix ".v" from version string
* add a few Arm architectures
* fix git URL to HTTPS
* fix preparation
* add git as makedepends
---
 PKGBUILD | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index e021e1d..2006f7c 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,65 +1,76 @@
-# $Id$
 # Maintainer: Joey Pabalinas <alyptik@protonmail.com>
+# Contributor: Mathieu Bacou <mathieu@bacou.me>
 # Contributor: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
 # Committer: dorphell <dorphell@gmx.net>

 pkgname=screen-git
-_pkgname=screen
-pkgver=v.4.2.1.580.gfbee2ab
-pkgrel=1
-pkgdesc='Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal with true-color support'
+# screen will report its version as 4.99.0.
+pkgver=4.9.1.r1286.cd4d02f
+pkgrel=2
+pkgdesc='Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal'
 url='https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/'
-arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
+arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64' 'armv7l' 'armv7h' 'armv6h' 'armv5')
 license=('GPL')
 depends=('ncurses' 'pam')
-validpgpkeys=('2EE59A5D0C50167B5535BBF1B708A383C53EF3A4'
-              '71AA09D9E8870FDB0AA7B61E21F968DEF747ABD7')
-source=("${_pkgname}::git+http://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/screen.git"
+source=("${pkgname}::git+https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/screen.git"
         'tmpfiles.d'
         'pam.d')
-
 sha256sums=('SKIP'
             '1f33ce4faca7bd05dd80403411af31e682d5d23e79558e884ae5a35f1dd96223'
             '971c25929ea97422c09e10679ab98e9e6c59295aae1a4a9970909d2206e23090')
-provides=("${_pkgname}")
-conflicts=("${_pkgname}")
-
+makedepends=('git')
 backup=('etc/screenrc' 'etc/pam.d/screen')
 options=('!makeflags')
+conflicts=('screen')
+provides=('screen')

 _ptygroup=5 #the UID of our PTY/TTY group

 pkgver() {
-   cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}"
-   git describe --tags |sed 's/-/./g'
+    cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}" || exit 2
+
+    set -o pipefail
+    # Tag without the `.v` prefix
+    tag=$(git tag --list --sort -v:refname | head -n1 | sed 's/^v.//')
+    rev=$(git rev-list --count HEAD)
+    hash=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
+    printf "%s.r%s.%s" "$tag" "$rev" "$hash"
+}
+
+prepare() {
+    cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}/src" || exit 2
+
+    NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
 }

 build() {
-   cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}/src"
-   ./autogen.sh
-   ./configure \
-       --prefix=/usr \
-       --mandir=/usr/share/man \
-       --infodir=/usr/share/info \
-       --enable-pam \
-       --enable-utmp \
-       --enable-telnet \
-       --enable-socket-dir \
-       --with-system_screenrc="/etc/screenrc" \
-       --with-pty-mode="0622" \
-       --with-pty-group="$_ptygroup" \
-       --with-pty-rofs="yes"
+    cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}/src" || exit 2
+
+    ./configure \
+        --prefix=/usr \
+        --mandir=/usr/share/man \
+        --infodir=/usr/share/info \
+        --enable-colors256 \
+        --enable-pam \
+        --enable-rxvt_osc \
+        --enable-telnet \
+        --with-pty-group=$_ptygroup \
+        --with-socket-dir=/run/screens \
+        --with-sys-screenrc=/etc/screenrc

-   make
+    make
 }

 package() {
-   cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}/src"
-   make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
+    cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}/src" || exit 2
+
+    make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
+
+    install -Dm644 etc/etcscreenrc "${pkgdir}"/etc/screenrc
+    install -Dm644 etc/screenrc "${pkgdir}"/etc/skel/.screenrc

-   install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/pam.d" "${pkgdir}"/etc/pam.d/screen
-   install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/tmpfiles.d" "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/screen.conf
+    cd "${srcdir}"

-   install -Dm644 etc/etcscreenrc "${pkgdir}"/etc/screenrc
-   install -Dm644 etc/screenrc "${pkgdir}"/etc/skel/.screenrc
+    install -Dm644 pam.d "${pkgdir}"/etc/pam.d/screen
+    install -Dm644 tmpfiles.d "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/screen.conf
 }
-- 
2.44.0

Doing the changes from the comments I managed built this. But getting permission errors on the /dev/pts/x when started. And I still couldn't get even this version to support the true-colors in the terminal..

Anyway this is the patch:

From 4388e1141e9cbd240b2d75eab2c7e0ec06e5316d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Premik 
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:56:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes per suggestions in the AUR comments - Removed '.v'
 prefix from the version string. - Added some `arm` archs. - Changed the git
 url to `https` - Added `autoreeconf -i`

---
 .SRCINFO   |  5 ++---
 .gitignore |  4 ++++
 PKGBUILD   | 13 +++++++++----
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index c9672b9..c0cf0a3 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pkgbase = screen-git
    pkgdesc = Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal with true-color support
-   pkgver = v.4.2.1.580.gfbee2ab
+   pkgver = 4.9.0.r1280.6df4a48
    pkgrel = 1
    url = https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
    arch = i686
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ pkgbase = screen-git
    options = !makeflags
    backup = etc/screenrc
    backup = etc/pam.d/screen
-   source = screen::git+http://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/screen.git
+   source = screen::git+https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/screen.git
    source = tmpfiles.d
    source = pam.d
    validpgpkeys = 2EE59A5D0C50167B5535BBF1B708A383C53EF3A4
@@ -23,4 +23,3 @@ pkgbase = screen-git
    sha256sums = 971c25929ea97422c09e10679ab98e9e6c59295aae1a4a9970909d2206e23090

 pkgname = screen-git
-
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3819313..aabb9d4 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
 *.swp
 *.swo
+*.pkg.tar.*
+pkg
+screen
+src
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index e021e1d..8efd3ef 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -5,16 +5,16 @@

 pkgname=screen-git
 _pkgname=screen
-pkgver=v.4.2.1.580.gfbee2ab
+pkgver=4.9.0.r1280.6df4a48
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal with true-color support'
 url='https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/'
-arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
+arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv7l' 'armv7h' 'armv6h' 'armv5')
 license=('GPL')
 depends=('ncurses' 'pam')
 validpgpkeys=('2EE59A5D0C50167B5535BBF1B708A383C53EF3A4'
               '71AA09D9E8870FDB0AA7B61E21F968DEF747ABD7')
-source=("${_pkgname}::git+http://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/screen.git"
+source=("${_pkgname}::git+https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/screen.git"
         'tmpfiles.d'
         'pam.d')

@@ -31,11 +31,16 @@ _ptygroup=5 #the UID of our PTY/TTY group

 pkgver() {
    cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}"
-   git describe --tags |sed 's/-/./g'
+   # Tag without the `.v` prefix
+   tag=$(git tag -l --sort -v:refname | head -n1| sed  's/^v.//;s/-/-/g')
+   rev=$(git rev-list --count HEAD)
+   hash=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
+   printf "%s.r%s.%s" "$tag" "$rev" "$hash"    
 }

 build() {
    cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}/src"
+   autoreconf -i
    ./autogen.sh
    ./configure \
        --prefix=/usr \
-- 
2.39.2

I managed to build this on aarch64 (Archlinux ARM) by editing PKGBUILD. One needs to add: autoreconf -i before ./autogen.sh in build() section.

Please remove v. prefix from pkgver, thanks.

Fails to build on my machine. Build log: https://pastebin.com/raw/LCq2F3m1

Aside from that, armv7l could be added to arch. I successfully built screen on a Raspberry Pi 2 by simply running cd src && ./configure && make (skipping autogen.sh).

NB: there is a problem with versioning for this package right now upstream, you can follow up at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58539