Sven Hoexter composed on 2018-01-11 10:08 (UTC+0100): > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:52:00AM +0100, john doe wrote:
>> 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'? I had looked at it repeatedly, probably close to 10 times. Only after looking again after some thread replies did I spot stretch/backports where stretch-backports belongs. :-p >> 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. > So 4.8.19 is available in unstable, that would be something someone could > backport. I don't know what the intent is in the existence of: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mc/mc_4.8.19-1_i386.deb & http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mc/mc-data_4.8.19-1_all.deb especially with 4.8.20 having been released in November, but I downloaded manually and installed 4.8.19 with dpkg, and it works just fine compared to the broken 4.8.18 that had been installed. -- "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/
