As I wrote in my mail to debian-devel@l.d.o I would like to ask for help for porting mc to link dynamically against libsmclient so that I can enable the native smb support again. I've disabled this support with the last upload to unstable. Please see the informations below for the reasons:

Here some background informations: mc still uses a very old samba lib to make the native smb support possible. This lib was included in 1996 and wasn't updated until now. Since the layout of the configuration file has changed and new features was added, this old lib had very much problems parsing this file. Furthermore I fear that there are untracked and unfixed security issues within this lib which were discovered from 1996 until now.

My plans are to link mc dynamically against the libsmbclient0, but since there are several other big tasks to work on, I don't know exactly if I've enough time to work on this big issue. If someone is interested in working on a fix for this or for any other issue listed here please contact me, so we can coordinate.

Thanks in advance