On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 03:30:56PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > 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
hmm - thanks for the reminder. > 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 I overlooked that in migrating the site: in the original site, I constructed a symbolic link from the breakout directory to the (partly generated) help-directory, e.g., http://lynx.invisible-island.net/release/lynx_help/cattoc.html But in the current site, links like that are harder to generate :-) > 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 right - I don't think it's worth the trouble (patches and tarballs work). > 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 Mostly it seems that I should tidy up the old release breakouts to repair broken links. (I'll work on that - but bear in mind that they'll cite the old hostnames). But the discussion began with the development sources and the package. > 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 | a...@deuxchevaux.org > (Mail) > X See http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html | a...@noone.org > (Mail+Jabber) > / \ I love long mails: http://email.is-not-s.ms/ | http://abe.noone.org/ > (Web) > -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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