bw composed on 2018-01-11 14:44 (UTC-0500): > I wouldn't install mc from unstable or testing on stretch, BUT I do love > the program. I don't consider it broken at all,
Running which version(s)? > and over the years it has > been well-maintained and I appreciate it. I use it all day every day, so For me it or one of its OFM[1] relatives are indispensable. My systems have trivial uptime without at least one running. Typically more than one are open. > maybe the best way to get it backported is to setup a testing system and > test it and file some bugs. > The maintainer already has that on his radar, so maybe it's possible. > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858808 I filed that bug 10 months ago, 5 months after the fix was committed upstream. 4.8.14, 4.8.15 and 4.8.16 had bugs that for me were not tolerable. 4.8.17 was good, but the only versions in http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mc/ are 4.8.13 (ancient), 4.8.18 (by 858808 broken) and 4.8.19 (officially broken, but including the fix that was officially included in 4.8.20). [1] http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_managers -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
