Package: mc
Version: 1:4.6.1-1exp1
Severity: wishlist
Isn't it time to upload the UTF-8 patched version of mc to unstable?
It has been in experimental for five weeks now, and AFICS no bugs have
been reported against it. This may be because hardly anybody uses it;
after all, the Policy Manual says about the experimental distribution:
The packages with this distribution value are deemed by their
maintainers to be high risk.
FWIW, I don't see what the risk is here :-) I've been using this
version for a week or so, running it in uxterm and on the Linux
console (after `unicode_start'), and mc seems to work just fine. The
only caveat is that the locale and terminal settings must match,
i.e. if the value of LANG ends in .UTF-8, the terminal must be in
unicode mode and vice versa.
I admit that I only use a small subset of mc's features, and there can
and probably will be some problems with the UTF-8 patches; but to find
them, broader testing is required, which can only be achieved by
uploading to unstable rather than experimental.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.32
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.5-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgpmg1 1.19.6-21 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii libslang2 2.0.5-1 The S-Lang programming library - r
mc recommends no packages.
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