misc/mc pending bugfix to #194627 and no maintainer to apply it

Viktor Štujber viktor.stujber at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 22:12:33 UTC 2014


There is a broken patch in the misc/mc port named patch-lib__tty__win.c. 
Its purpose was to be a compatibility fix for a missing feature of 
freebsd xterm, but in its current form it causes console text to be 
cleared (scrolled off-screen) when you press ctrl+o to view it. This is 
a big annoyance when one wants to see the output of a command.

The patch was fine before, but on Sep 23, along with the 4.8.13 update, 
one part of its two paired-up patch blocks was removed, possibly as an 
oversight (r369133, 
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=369133 ). One 
month later, a bugreport was submitted describing what happened and how 
to fix it (#194627, 
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194627 ). Yet another 
month later, the port's maintainer has abandoned(?) it and reset the 
'maintainer' to ports at .

I would like to request that this problem be finally resolved. The fix 
is to either apply the patch shown in the bugreport, or, equivalently, 
revert to r335823 and adjust all line numbers by -1 to make it apply 
cleanly.


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