[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#877787: bug in lynx 2.8.8pre4-1 (Ubuntu 14.04): not all links are parsed

[Steve Hartley]

Package: lynx
Version: 2.8.8pre4-1

Bug: I am using Ubuntu 14.04.  Not all links are parsed.  For example, do the following.

lynx -dump https://www.nytimes.com/ >n.txt; view n.txt

You will see the following (mid day October 5, 2017) in the text file.

Inside Nytimes.com

   (BUTTON)
   Go to the previous story
   (BUTTON)
   Go to the next story
    1. [129]Television
       Best of Late Night: Back Off, Tillerson Is Told
    2. [130]Opinion
       Another Nobel Prize for the Fruit Fly
    3. [131]Science
       A Tortoise Is Winning Its Race With Extinction
    4. [132]Smarter Living
       Answers to Common Relationship Problems

There are no links to the articles "Best of Late Night: Back Off, Tillerson Is Told", "Another Nobel Prize for the Fruit Fly", etc., only links to "Television", etc.  When viewed in a browser (Firefox, Chrome, etc.), the links are all there.

% dpkg -l | grep lynx
ii  lynx                                                  2.8.8pre4-1                                         all          Text-mode WWW Browser (transitional package)
ii  lynx-cur                                              2.8.8pre4-1                                         amd64        Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS support (development version)