On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:52:00AM +0100, john doe wrote: > On 1/11/2018 8:08 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Trying to get a non-broken recent version of mc, the instructions on > > https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ fail[1]. How can I get a > > non-broken > > relatively recent mc package installed, e.g. patched 4.8.19, or 4.8.20? > > Breakage > > was fixed 15 months ago[2]. > What lines do you have in 'sources.list'? > > The following URL is working for me: > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main
Hey guys, there is no backport of the mc package available, so someone has to backport it first. There is no automatic backport process running because that's technically not really possible and that's not how backports are intendet to work. $ rmadison mc mc | 3:4.8.3-10 | oldoldstable | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc mc | 3:4.8.13-3 | oldstable | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x mc | 3:4.8.13-3 | oldstable-kfreebsd | source, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386 mc | 3:4.8.18-1 | stable | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x mc | 3:4.8.19-1 | testing | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x mc | 3:4.8.19-1 | unstable | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x mc | 3:4.8.19-1 | unstable-debug | source mc | 3:4.8.19-1+b1 | testing | mips64el mc | 3:4.8.19-1+b1 | unstable | mips64el So 4.8.19 is available in unstable, that would be something someone could backport. Cheeers, Sven
