Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
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:
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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
I use Sarge. But the 4.6.1 release from source and compile my own to get undelete with it.
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