[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#661481: mc: /usr/share/mc/bin/mc.sh missing

[Osamu Aoki]

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

When I log-in I get:

> bash: /usr/share/mc/bin/mc.sh: No such file or directory

I found out:
> $ ls -l /usr/share/mc/bin/
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Feb 27 05:45 mc-wrapper.sh -> ../../../lib/mc/mc-wrapper.sh

I also chngelog:

> mc (3:4.8.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * New upstream release [December 2011]
> ...
>   * install scripts to /usr/lib/mc
>     (previously was installed to /usr/share/mc)
> ...
>   * added symlink to relocated mc-wrapper.sh for backward compatibility
> ...
> 
>  -- Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob at member.fsf.org>  Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:04:57 +1100

I guess what you need is:
> $ ls -l /usr/share/mc/bin/
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Feb 27 05:45 mc.sh -> ../../../lib/mc/mc-wrapper.sh

I see no more mc.csh link from /usr/share/mc/bin/

> Please note manpage still have:
>        -P file, --printwd=file
>          Print  the last working directory to the specified file.  This
>          option is not meant to be used directly.  Instead, it's used from a special
>          shell script that automatically changes the current directory of the shell to
>          the last directory the Midnight Commander was in.  Source the file
>          /usr/share/mc/bin/mc.sh (bash and zsh users) or /usr/share/mc/bin/mc.csh 
>          (tcsh users) respectively to define mc as an alias to the appropriate shell script.

I think updating links as above while updating these manpage to point to
/usr/lib/mc/mc-wrapper.sh and /usr/lib/mc/mc-wrapper.csh

For now, I will change my ~/.bashrc to use /usr/lib/mc/mc-wrapper.sh

Osamu

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

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.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  arj                  3.10.22-10
ii  bzip2                1.0.6-1
ii  catdvi               <none>
ii  dbview               <none>
ii  djvulibre-bin        <none>
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]  3.2.1-1
ii  file                 5.10-1
ii  gv                   <none>
ii  imagemagick          8:6.6.9.7-6
ii  odt2txt              <none>
ii  perl                 5.14.2-7
ii  python               2.7.2-10
ii  python-boto          <none>
ii  python-tz            <none>
ii  unzip                6.0-5
ii  w3m                  0.5.3-5
ii  zip                  3.0-4

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