[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#486321: acknowledged by developer (closing 486321)

[Joerg Jaspert]

reopen 486321
thanks

> "ls -l" output may have unexpected side effects for remote/unreachable 
> directories so I doubt it's such a good idea. (It could be really slow for 
> large directories so I think it may be challenging to implement without 
> introducing unwanted side effects)

Then it can be behind a config option...
  
> We can not fix this on our side but you may always try your luck with 
> convincing upstream.

Actually interacting with upstream is one part of a Debian Maintainers
job.
One reason why there is that "forwarded" tag in the BTS, you know.

> However it's not all too bad because there is "information" mode you can 
> activate with "Ctrl+x i" to show information about files/directories pretty 
> much like quick view mode show files contents.

Thats a step forward, yes. Now it would be nice if mc would do that on
its own...

> Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
> have further comments please address them to 486321 at bugs.debian.org,
> and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

I've done that myself, as I simply disagree with the closing. I sure
understand this is not a patch that Debian itself wants to carry alone,
nor might it want to develop it alone...
But one part of a Maintainers job is collecting things like this,
forwarding them to the right place, etc. Thats one of the nice things of
the BTS, it is not just a place for "Debian only" bugs. It can and does
carry much more. And it does so while not having to let all users learn
10trillion different bug tracking systems, get a login on whatever the
next random upstream uses, etc.

-- 
bye, Joerg
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