hi
i reported on irc, but apparently nobody listens there:
Day changed to 09 Dec 2011
22:07:16 glen> 1.13.4 tarball is buggy. builds from it lack version id
in user agent header
22:07:36 glen> $ wget -q -O - ifconfig.me/ua
22:07:44 glen> this prints: Wget/ (linux-gnu)
22:08:03 glen> seems the problem is that tarball does not contain this
file: sh: build-aux/bzr-version-gen: not found
22:08:12 glen> so regenerating autoconf creates empty @VERSION@
22:08:28 glen> $ grep version.string src/version.c
22:08:28 glen> const char *version_string = "";
in pld linux i workarounded:
http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/cvs/packages/wget/wget.spec?r1=1.158&r2=1.159
<http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/cvs/packages/wget/wget.spec?r1=1.158&r2=1.159>
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glen
