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@ginggs
Since latest mc 4.8.12 has really a lot important fixes and there are also a few patches about copy/move operations (a few will be addend in the 4.8.13)
Do you think you could prepare an updated package?

Yes, I haven't forgotten about mc. I plan to sync with the version in Debian and include joerg_rw's fix to use diffutils-gnu.

Maybe 4.8.13 is even better:

https://packages.debian.org/it/sid/mc

Yes, I'll upload after Debian Jessie freeze (early November).

DIN DON! Scheduled polling:

https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html

In progress...
https://github.com/ginggs/maemo-mc

I'm going to add a 'suggests' dependency on diffutils-gnu to allow mc's diff function to work. Are there any other GNU Utilities that we need?

I tried building with all of mc in Debian's options.

For spell check and general purpose mouse we need the following which are only in Extras-devel and might not have active maintainers:
http://maemo.org/packages/view/libaspell-dev/
http://maemo.org/packages/view/libgpm-dev/

For vfs-undelfs we need the following which is in the Fremantle SDK, but will need to get promoted to Extras:
http://maemo.org/packages/view/e2fslibs-dev/
Would this be of any use on a mobile platform?

For vfs-sftp (SFTP link) we need the following which are available in Extras:
http://maemo.org/packages/view/libgcrypt11/
http://maemo.org/packages/view/libgpg-error0/
and the following which is only in Extras-devel and might not have an active maintainer:
http://maemo.org/packages/view/libssh2-1-dev/

Unfortunately, the version of libshh2-1-dev in Extras-devel is only at version 0.18-1. I tried to build version 1.2.5-1, which is the earliest version that will work with vfs-sftp, but that seems to need at least version 2 of libtool, but there is only 1.5.26:
http://maemo.org/packages/view/libtool/

Update: I was able to build version 1.2.8-2 of libssh2-1 from Debian with only minor modifications and vfs-sftp works. I have requested to become a maintainer of libssh2-1, but may have to ask council if I receive no response.
Last upload of libssh2-1 to extras-devel was on 2011-02-17, and Slonopotamus's last activity on t.m.o. was on 2012-09-16.

Midnight Commander 4.8.13-0maemo1 is now available in extras-devel.

I'd appreciate some feedback before I promote it to extras-testing.

Changelog:

• New upstream release.
• Drop patches included upstream.
• Fix FTBFS with glib <2.22.0 (upstream ticket #3333).
• Merge changes from mc 3:4.8.13-3 in Debian:
  - d/patches/*
  - d/control: Depends, Recommends, Suggests and Provides
• Update d/control: enable verbose build output.
• Use wrappers to add /usr/bin/gnu to PATH in order to use
  diff from diffutils-gnu package - Thanks joerg_rw.

Will this build work on Harmattan?

I'd guess not, because of different library versions, but it should build without modification on Harmattan. At least, previous versions did.
If there is an interest in Midnight Commander for N9 I can try uploading to OpenRepos.