Comment 1 for bug 1629497

Well, I'm not sure how we can help you. There is an option to install from source, or else unofficial binary packages are provided here: http://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/Binaries . It is way to hard to backport fixes to 4.8.15, and the other problem is you need to identify them in the first place. I would say the only reasonable strategy would be to request a backport of the complete package, but I'd suggest you to wait with filling a bug for that until 4.8.18 is released and gets into Ubuntu.