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main/nano: upgrade to 5.8

ur4t requested to merge (removed):nano-bump-version into master

Bump nano version to 5.8.

Remove makedepends file-dev and corresponding depend libmagic for circumstances where we do not want such a huge unnecessary (since v5.3) dependency (7MiB libmagic vs 300KiB nano).

Explicitly disable libmagic to avoid autoconf script automatical detection, because the build environment for package releasing has file-dev installed. More details are on related merge request !22304 (closed).

Reference Release log from Nano News Section: 2020 October 7 - GNU nano 5.3 "Revolution!"

  • Nano no longer by default tries using libmagic to determine the type of a file (when neither filename nor first line gave a clue), because in most cases it is a waste of time. It requires using the option --magic or -! or 'set magic' to make nano try libmagic.
Edited by ur4t

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