[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#879991: [Lynx-dev] Missing link on lynx.invisible-island.net
Axel Beckert
abe at debian.org
Mon Oct 30 16:52:45 UTC 2017
Control: tag -1 + pending upstream
Hi again,
Axel Beckert wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:41:01AM +0000, Ian Collier wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 07:47:16AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 09:21:26AM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > > > according to
> > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=879991
> > > > there points a link in documentation to nowhere.
[…]
> > The Lynx source does not build cattoc.html unless configure was run
> > with --enable-htmlized-cfg - but by default that setting is disabled, in
> > which case the Lynx_users_guide.html that it produces contains a broken
> > link. I'd say that is an issue with the upstream source.
[…]
> But if cattoc.html (and maybe other files) is just built with that
> configure option (which we currently don't use), it's understandable
> if instead a link to the upstream website is used.
That's the case. If I configure lynx with --enable-htmlized-cfg, that
link indeed becomes a local one. Hence I can fix the issue in the
Debian package that way.
Nevertheless this is still a bug in the upstream code as the default
online URL for that link points to a non-existing file.
Regards, Axel
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