[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#1072504: lynx: does not discard output from mailcap test

Andreas Metzler ametzler at bebt.de
Sun Jun 9 15:16:29 BST 2024


Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream

On 2024-06-03 Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> wrote:
> Package: lynx
> Version: 2.9.2-1
> Severity: important

> lynx does not discard output from mailcap test, so that "lynx -dump"
> generates incorrect output.

> With mailcap 3.71:

> $ lynx -dump /dev/null
> /bin/atril
[...]
> because /etc/mailcap now has lines like

> application/pdf; atril %s; test=command -v atril && test -n "$DISPLAY"

> where "command -v atril" outputs "/bin/atril".
[..]
> As a comparison, run-mailcap discards stdout and stderr:
[...]

Thomas has already fixed this upstream in v2-9-2b:
2024-06-05 (2.9.2b)
* modify mailcap "test=" handling to redirect stdout/stderr to /dev/null
  (Debian #1072504) -TD

cu Andreas



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