[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#499620: mc: vfs over ftp eventually drops the connection, making it unusable

[Jiří Paleček]

Package: mc
Version: 2:4.6.2~git20080311-3
Severity: normal

Hello,

quite often, when I browse some archives with mc over ftp, after some  
time, mc closes the ftp connection. From then on, browsing the archive  
doesn't work, for example files appear as empty when viewing or copying,  
etc. Moreover, when I reopen the ftp, enter the same archive and try to  
copy/view the same file again, it is still empty.

Regards
     Jiri Palecek

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.3-test-pcw (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2) (ignored: LC_ALL  
set to cs_CZ)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.8+20080809-1 GNU C Library: Shared  
libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.16.1-2       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpm2                   1.20.4-2       General Purpose Mouse -  
shared lib
ii  libslang2                 2.1.3-2        The S-Lang programming  
library - r

mc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mc suggests:
pn  arj                          <none>      (no description available)
ii  bzip2                        1.0.5-0.1   high-quality block-sorting  
file co
pn  dbview                       <none>      (no description available)
ii  file                         4.21-1      Determines file type using  
"magic"
ii  links                        2.1pre37-1  Web browser running in text  
mode
ii  lynx-cur [lynx]              2.8.7dev9-1 Text-mode WWW Browser with  
NLS sup
ii  mime-support                 3.39-1      MIME files 'mime.types' &  
'mailcap
pn  odt2txt                      <none>      (no description available)
ii  perl                         5.10.0-13   Larry Wall's Practical  
Extraction
ii  unzip                        5.52-9      De-archiver for .zip files
ii  xpdf                         3.02-1.4    Portable Document Format  
(PDF) sui
ii  zip                          2.32-1      Archiver for .zip files

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