#1108061 mc: ten-second freeze at start, pause after running command option ignored

Package:
mc
Source:
mc
Description:
Midnight Commander - a powerful file manager
Submitter:
Thorsten Glaser
Date:
2025-08-31 16:51:07 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1108061#5
Date:
2025-06-19 21:02:58 UTC
From:
To:
As I’ve mentioned upstream, these issues (which are heavily felt in
daily use as I start and exit mc tons of times) are caused by the
subshell communication code sometimes using a too-high file descriptor
number and then the shell runs “pwd >&10”, which is not supported in
POSIX shells (including mksh/lksh).

I’ve just submitted a corresponding change upstream, but this needs
to be fixed in trixie, too. Please find attached a debdiff for this
(except debian/changelog), apply and get a freeze exception.

(mc will need to be rebuilt for trixie already *anyway* due to
 #1108010 once e2fsprogs is fixed, so this’ll save a binNMU)
#1108061#12
Date:
2025-06-29 00:03:41 UTC
From:
To:
tags 1108061 + fixed-upstream
thanks

Hi,

the equivalent patch (plus a new comment) got merged upstream.

I would really like this in trixie; if it’d help, I’d do it as
NMU and ask for approval. Please indicate if that’s okay or not.

Thanks,
//mirabilos
#1108061#17
Date:
2025-08-26 16:23:40 UTC
From:
To:
Dear maintainer,

I've prepared an NMU for mc (versioned as 3:4.8.33-1.1) and
uploaded it to DELAYED/5. Please feel free to tell me if I
should delay it longer.

Regards.

(I’ve also filed a trixie-p-u request.)

As announced earlier,
//mirabilos
#1108061#22
Date:
2025-08-31 16:49:39 UTC
From:
To:
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
mc, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1108061@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> (supplier of updated mc package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:08:19 +0000
Source: mc
Architecture: source
Version: 3:4.8.33-1.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org>
Changed-By: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>
Closes: 1108061
Changes:
 mc (3:4.8.33-1.1) unstable; urgency=high
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Added debian/patches/subshell-fd.patch (Closes: #1108061)
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