Re: Help testing the pre-release of mc-4.8.18

[Paul Marwick <paul marwick gmail com>]

Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> TLDR; we would appreciate if you could test the following tarball on
> your systems and report any blocker regressions as compared to 4.8.17:
>
> http://www.midnight-commander.org/nopaste/tarball/mc-4.8.17-122-g6822251.tar.xz
>
> $ sha256sum mc-4.8.17-122-g6822251.tar.xz
> e9a4a418d9d551b4a58fffa907c001a5eb84d2fe2e490d221f99c1d1642fecbd
>
> A longer explanation: we're thinking of making another bugfix release
> next week or so to push out the changes accumulated in master so far.

I can't say I was having any major problems with 4.8.17, though there 
was a second release from the Arch maintainer a few days ago with a 
couple of patches applied.

> However, I find it very unsatisfying that we've been getting an influx
> of reports concerning some really annoying regressions right after the
> releases in the past, so, this time around, I propose that distro
> maintainers and regular users check the pre-release tarball beforehand
> and report FTBFSs & regressions if any, such that this time (hopefully)
> we'll break out of this vicious cycle.
>
> I've built this tarball out of the latest master with translations from
> Transifex pulled in on the same VM where I build regular releases.
>
> Many thanks!
I've built the package and have it running. So far, its working just 
fine. Are there any specific problems you would like checked? I use fish 
a lot (both within my own network and for remote work on customer 
sites), I use the editor and viewer and I make a great deal of use of 
the VFS support.

If anyone is interested, I've built an Arch package for it (though I had 
to rename it to 4.8.18 to get it through the Arch makepkg rules. Anyone 
who wants to try the Arch build, drop me an email.

Paul.