Jim Holland wrote: > Hi all > > One of the reasons that I have switched over to using Debian is that its > display of console utilities such as Midnight Commander works much better > than Red Hat and derivatives from version 8 on. However I have still > found a display problem (a screen refresh failure) with the stable version > of mc that is being currently distributed: 4.6.1-pre3-3. I wrote to the > MC mailing list and was told: > > >>Why Debian hasn't upgraded mc to 4.6.1 release is beyond me. Quite a few >>issues have been solved between pre3 and the release. > > >>Anyway, regarding the redrawing issues you are seeing: Since 4.6.1 >>Roland Illig has made quite a few changes to the viewer. Please grab a >>recent CVS tarball from >>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/snapshots/ and >>see if that improves matters. > > > The later version did solve the problems I was having. Is there anyone > who is working on upgrading the standard Debian mc package? > > Regards > > Jim Holland > System Administrator > MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service > > >
This is because once Debian makes a stable release, the only bugs that are fixed are security-related and something so grievous as to make something unusable for many people. For example, if a package won't install anymore, or something like that. My advice to you is to get the source package from unstable [0] and then read my package customization HOWTO [1] and backport the package to Sarge yourself. Let me know if you find any of this confusing or you need any more help. -Roberto [0] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/mc [1] http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/howtos/debcustomize -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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