Package: wget Version: 1.21-1+deb11u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Metalink is a standard format (see RFC 5854) for describing how to download a collection of files. There is also a standard way to link to a metalink description (see RFC 6249). Seemingly upstream wget supports metalink; for example, the wget man page documents various command-line options to make use of this support: https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html#Logging-and-Input-File-Options Despite this, the version of wget distributed with Debian appears to be missing any metalink functionality. When I attempt to use 'wget' to obtain files from their metalink description, the response indicates that the command-line options are not understood. For example: paul@celebrimbor:~/vtmp$ stat my-data.meta4 File: my-data.meta4 Size: 1016 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: fe02h/65026d Inode: 11274768 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1000/ paul) Gid: ( 1000/ paul) Access: 2023-08-28 14:49:38.092156514 +0200 Modify: 2023-08-28 10:44:34.000000000 +0200 Change: 2023-08-28 15:05:33.626905826 +0200 Birth: 2023-08-28 14:49:34.212047948 +0200 paul@celebrimbor:~/vtmp$ file my-data.meta4 my-data.meta4: XML 1.0 document, ASCII text, with very long lines, with no line terminators paul@celebrimbor:~/vtmp$ wget --input-metalink=my-data.meta4 wget: unrecognized option '--input-metalink=my-data.meta4' Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]... Try `wget --help' for more options. paul@celebrimbor:~/vtmp$ The behaviour suggests that the Debian distributed 'wget' binary was compiled without including metalink support. However, this does not appear to be mentioned in the files within the /usr/share/doc/wget directory. Would it be possible to include metalink support in the Debian distributed wget binary? Cheers, Paul. *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.7 APT prefers oldstable-security APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-25-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages wget depends on: ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u6 ii libgnutls30 3.7.1-5+deb11u3 ii libidn2-0 2.3.0-5 ii libnettle8 3.7.3-1 ii libpcre2-8-0 10.36-2+deb11u1 ii libpsl5 0.21.0-1.2 ii libuuid1 2.36.1-8+deb11u1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u2 Versions of packages wget recommends: ii ca-certificates 20210119 wget suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
