[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#661468: mc: Some old settings are reset to the defaults without warning

[Christian Ohm]

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.8.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The first run after the upgrade warns about the old config being
migrated to the new locations. But some options, e.g. the lynx-like
motion, have changed in the config files as well as the menu, so at
first it seemed to me that option was removed (and going by
https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2357 I wasn't the only one).
Ideally those settings would be migrated automatically as well, but at
least a note to search through all menus and maybe pointing to some docs
about where things are now if those exist could help there.

Best regards,
Christian Ohm

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  e2fslibs      1.42.1-2
ii  libc6         2.13-27
ii  libcomerr2    1.42.1-2
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.30.2-6
ii  libgpm2       1.20.4-4
ii  libslang2     2.2.4-6
ii  mc-data       3:4.8.1-1

Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii  mime-support  3.52-1

Versions of packages mc suggests:
ii  acroread [pdf-viewer]  9.4.7-0.1
ii  arj                    <none>
ii  bzip2                  1.0.6-1
ii  catdvi                 <none>
ii  dbview                 <none>
ii  djvulibre-bin          3.5.24-9
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]    3.2.1-1
ii  file                   5.10-1
ii  gv [pdf-viewer]        1:3.7.3-1
ii  imagemagick            8:6.6.9.7-6
ii  odt2txt                <none>
ii  okular [pdf-viewer]    4:4.6.5-3
ii  perl                   5.14.2-7
ii  python                 2.7.2-10
ii  python-boto            <none>
ii  python-tz              2011h-1
ii  unzip                  6.0-5
ii  w3m                    0.5.3-5
ii  xpdf [pdf-viewer]      3.03-9
ii  zathura [pdf-viewer]   0.0.8.5-4
ii  zip                    3.0-4

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