[Pkg-mc-devel] on our way to 4.8.1-2

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 04:42:23PM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> 
> No worries, I've checked all of them and all new bugs are addressed.
> Unzip regression was introduced in 4.8.1-1 (fixed in 4.8.1-2)
> and there were few issues with upgrade and migration of old settings - all 
> fixed.
> 
> 4.8.1-2 will close all new bugs and few more old ones so after its upload we 
> will have less than 30 bugs opened. :)

Cool!!
 
> NEWS file describe changes regarding Lynx-like motion.

OK.

> Yesterday I tried if for the very first time and found it uncomfortable.

Just for the sake of interest and totally unrelated to the packaging:
For what purpose you are using the <left> and <right> key otherwise if
not set to "lynx-like" motion?  All people I showed this feature really
liked it and thus you are the first one who dislikes I'm just wondering
whether I might have missed a better use for these keys.

> After all these years I certainly wouldn't like to have it by default as I 
> imagine it may cause frustration to many other people as well.
> 
> If you're serious about it, let's make a wishlist bug and invite more people 
> to discussion, but so far nobody asked to make it default so I think it's not 
> too important.

I agree that it is not important enough to seriosely derive from
upstream default settings.  It just came to my mind as a handy
workaround which perfectly fits my preference.
 
> I've made few more changes in repository so now I believe it is ready-ready 
> for upload. (Hopefully I won't need to make any changes to this version, it 
> appears to be settled.)

Uploaded because it seemed to be quite a good idea to involve more
people from unstable into testing the package. 

Thanks for your work on this

       Andreas.

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