[mc] Not able to open bz2 files

[H]

H via mc wrote:
> Running mc under Rocky Linux 9. The help screen for mc says "unknown" for version but it has been installed from epel (I believe). I am unable to open bz2 archives despite bzip2 installed.
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> Is this a known bug?

rpm -qa shows I have version 4.8.26 installed although mc -V shows "version unknown". Searching on the internet suggests this is a known bug with respect to unpacking archives which has been fixed in version 4.8.31.

What would be the proper procedure for requesting mc in the Rocky Linux 9 archive (RHEL 9) archive be updated to the latest version since this is a "serious" bug?