byobu doesn't source .screenrc when given command line arguments

Binary package hint: byobu

I noticed after upgrading to 10.04 that the default behavior for 'byobu' with no command line arguments is to try and attach to an already existing session instead of creating a new session. I personally think it should remain the other way around, mostly because there are a couple options (-r -R -x ) to reconnect to an existing screen session, but the only way to force creation of a new session is to create a named session with -S <name> (there's no simple -n for new session).

Anyway, this new behavior lead to me notice that .screenrc was being sourced when byobu is launched with no command line arguments, but is ignored when command line arguments (like -S name) are passed.

Looking at the byobu script at /usr/bin/byobu, it seems if no arguments are given, a new session is created with the config file /usr/share/byobu/profiles/byoburc, which in turns sources ~/.byobu/profile and ~/.screenrc

If any command line arguments are given, screen is called with the config file ~/.byobu/profile, which doesn't source ~/.screenrc

I don't know if there's a reason that these are different, but two workarounds I can think of is to use /usr/share/byobu/profiles/byoburc if there are command line arguments as well as not, or to have ~/.byobu/profile source ~/.screenrc instead of /usr/share/byobu/profiles/byoburc

I don't know enough about byobu to know which (if either) would be acceptable.

To reproduce:
byobu -S test

4) what i expect to happen:
start a new screen/byobu session that sources ~/.screenrc

5) what happens:
starts a new screen/byobu session that ignores ~/.screenrc

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: byobu 2.68-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-020632-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri May 14 16:19:33 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: byobu