Hi, 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. > > > I pointed out that it's a problem with the package, not the upstream source. > > 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.
Thanks for that hint. For privacy reasons many binary distributions don't like remote startup pages, etc. and change them to local links. So do we by patching lynx.cfg. 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. So I checked where this link comes from in the (unpatched and unbuilt) 2.8.9dev16 sources: $ git grep breakout lynx.cfg:# is available at http://lynx.invisible-island.net/release/breakout/lynx_help/cattoc.html lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html: "http://lynx.invisible-island.net/release/breakout/lynx_help/cattoc.html";> lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html: "http://lynx.invisible-island.net/release/breakout/lynx_help/alphatoc.html";> lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html: "http://lynx.invisible-island.net/release/breakout/lynx_help/cattoc.html";> lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html: "http://lynx.invisible-island.net/release/breakout/docs/";>lynx makefile.in:LYNX_URL='@HOMEPAGE_URL@release/breakout' The URL argued about in the bug report is http://lynx.invisible-island.net/release/breakout/lynx_help/cattoc.html So this URL indeed is part of the unmodified upstream sources. http://lynx.invisible-island.net/release/breakout/lynx_help/ shows quite some files, but not cattoc.html. But it lists http://lynx.invisible-island.net/release/breakout/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html and that also contains those links "by category" and "by alphabet". But it's even worse there: They point to those two URLs where the hostname no more exists: http://lynx.isc.org/release/breakout/lynx_help/cattoc.html http://lynx.isc.org/release/breakout/lynx_help/alphatoc.html This probably comes from the fact that this is not from a development release but an rather old stable release. But http://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/breakout/ doesn't exist. So I went to http://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx_help/ and clicked on "Online Documentation" in the left menu (http://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx_help/). But I just got "Forbidden — You don't have permission to access /lynx_help/ on this server." Thomas: So for me it looks as if Elimar and Ian are right: This looks like broken literal links in the upstream code and the included prebuilt documentation as well as in the online documentation. It would be nice if you could have a closer look at these issues. Thanks in advance! Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News | [email protected] (Mail) X See http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html | [email protected] (Mail+Jabber) / \ I love long mails: http://email.is-not-s.ms/ | http://abe.noone.org/ (Web) _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
