[Bug 1686117] Re: upgrade from Zesty to Artful fails if done in text mode

[Balint Reczey]

>From screen 4.5.0 "-L" takes an optional argument, the logfile name which can't be started with "-":
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/screen.git/commit/?h=upstream&id=80906f833dd5f1f5fb2ceb99575a289e97caca8a

Zesty has 4.5.x, Yaketty had 4.4.x thus the upgrade just started failing.
The fix needs to support upgrade from Xenial (screen 4.3.x) and Artful (screen > 4.5), too, thus needs to support both original and new screen command line.

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Title:
  upgrade from Zesty to Artful fails if done in text mode

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I updated the meta-release-development file for Artful, tried to
  upgrade to it and got this crash:

    $ do-release-upgrade -d
  Checking for a new Ubuntu release
  Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [836 B]                                                                                                                                                                                                          
  Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,289 kB]                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
  Fetched 1,290 kB in 6s (151 kB/s)                                                                                                                                                                                                             
  authenticate 'artful.tar.gz' against 'artful.tar.gz.gpg' 
  extracting 'artful.tar.gz'
  [sudo] password for bdmurray: 
  -L: logfile name can not start with "-" symbol

  This'll need some investigation.

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