Package: lynx-cur Version: 2.8.7dev10-5 The lynx-cur package is intended to create a /etc/lynx-cur/local.cfg file with contents STARTFILE:http://www.debian.org/ (or whatever value is configured via debconf). However, as of 2.8.7dev10-5, this only works if /etc/lynx-cur/local.cfg already exists.
As a result, new installs of lynx-cur always get the default homepage of http://lynx.isc.org/, which incidentally happens to be down right now, so lynx exits with an error (“lynx: Can't access startfile http://lynx.isc.org/”). The bug is that this line in lynx-cur.postinst (introduced for http://bugs.debian.org/492468 ): # do not try managing $CONFIGfile if it exists, but is not a regular file if test -f $CONFIGFILE && ! test -L $CONFIGFILE ; then has the wrong test. It should be if (test -f $CONFIGFILE || ! test -e $CONFIGFILE) && ! test -L $CONFIGFILE ; then -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org