On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 21:25:26 +0200 "Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury shurup com> wrote:
If you can come up a one-liner patch to make it compatible with old glib, we can think of applying it; I have nothing against supporting older glib per se, unless it comes with too much of a maintenance cost... but I'm not really sure if it's worth it.
Glib version check patch attached.
Back when I was taking care of backporting mc to older RHELs, I simply used to build newer glib statically from within the package and link mc to it... that's the route I'd suggest you to go if you care about backporting mc to Squeeze.
I'm not interested in backporting MC to Debian Squeeze. I'm building MC packages for Debian/Ubuntu actual releases (see https://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/Binaries) and Squeeze in this list due to Debian Squeeze LTS. If support "cost" for Debian Squeeze is going higher (higher than cost of electricity which buildbot spend to build package) then I will drop support for Debian Squeeze. -- WBR, Andrey Tataranovich
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