Comment 10 for bug 905610

err /etc/mc/Syntax was a file not a directory. Going from the source and Debian bug #539917, it looks like /usr/share is the correct place for it, it'll be overridden by /etc/mc/Syntax, should that exist.

However, /etc/mc/Syntax was a conffile and the new package won't include it, so it'll remain installed, overriding the one in /usr/share/mc, even if it's never been modified. That's probably not ideal. Please look at dpkg-maintscript-helper as a sane way to remove it.

Given the activity in the mc team in Debian, there won't be time to get them to upload this before Beta 1, so forwarding the patch doesn't need to come first.