#3975: Not plain/text /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz
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Reporter: jaalto | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: mutt | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by Ian.Collier@…):
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On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 07:10:18PM -0000, Mutt wrote:
Yes. This is not a valid mutt bug in my opinion*. The Mutt source
does not contain a manual - it's constructed from the source during the
build process, first into xml and then into html and text. The Makefile
supplied with Mutt uses "lynx -dump -with_backspaces" to convert html to
text but the packager could use any method he chooses. It appears that
Fedora/Red Hat chooses to build this without Lynx installed so instead
the conversion is done with "w3m -dump" which produces plain text.
You could argue for the removal of the -with_backspaces option, but
this seems to me to be just personal preference with no one correct
answer. If Debian accepts this bug report then Debian could choose
to package the manual differently.
imc
* My opinion of course doesn't count for anything - I'm just a user.
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