GNU/screen comes to Debian Installer

It's based on my recent work to support GNU/screen for Debian Installer.

For d-i on normal PC, we can simply press Alt-F2 to get a console almost anytime during install, but it's not easy for some device such as headless server or ARM based board, which usually accessed via serial console or network-console (SSH). So I spent some time to make GNU/screen ported to Debian Installer [0].

Now it's almost done, and only wait for 2 packages to be uploaded [1][2] I also made a few local build for a few devices, and asked users to test, the feedback is quite positive [3].

I'll introduce this work during the short talk and ask for feedback. And if possible, I can also do some demo after the talk. Thank you!

[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2016/04/msg00308.html [1] https://bugs.debian.org/819397 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/819988 [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2016/05/msg00121.html

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