Bug#888691: wget -b produces empty wget-log file

[chris]

Package: wget
Version: 1.19.3-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

wget -b "http://dreamicus.com/data/cat/cat-01.jpg";

produces empty wget-log file, since 1.19.3-2, I believe.

This is unusual.

Regards,
Chris

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to 
en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages wget depends on:
ii  libc6        2.26-5
ii  libgnutls30  3.5.17-1
ii  libidn2-0    2.0.4-1.1
ii  libnettle6   3.4-1
ii  libpcre3     2:8.39-8
ii  libpsl5      0.19.1-4
ii  libuuid1     2.30.2-0.3
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages wget recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20170717

wget suggests no packages.

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