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and subject line Bug#1072504: fixed in lynx 2.9.3-1
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regarding lynx: does not discard output from mailcap test
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Package: lynx
Version: 2.9.2-1
Severity: important
lynx does not discard output from mailcap test, so that "lynx -dump"
generates incorrect output.
With mailcap 3.71:
$ lynx -dump /dev/null
/bin/atril
/usr/bin/emacs
/usr/bin/emacs
/bin/gimp-2.10
/bin/baobab
/bin/eog
/bin/evince
/bin/inkscape
/bin/wireshark
because /etc/mailcap now has lines like
application/pdf; atril %s; test=command -v atril && test -n "$DISPLAY"
where "command -v atril" outputs "/bin/atril".
I can see from strace output that lynx executes
434913 execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "--", "command -v atril && test -n
\"$DISPLAY\""], 0x55b606914990 /* 137 vars */ <unfinished ...>
and so on.
As a comparison, run-mailcap discards stdout and stderr:
if ($match =~ m/;\s*test=(.*?)\s*($|;)/) {
my $test;
print STDERR " - running test: $1 " if $debug;
$test = system "$1 >/dev/null 2>&1";
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'),
(500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.7.12-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lynx depends on:
ii libbrotli1 1.1.0-2+b3
ii libbsd0 0.12.2-1
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-5.1
ii libc6 2.38-12
ii libgnutls30t64 3.8.5-4
ii libidn2-0 2.3.7-2
ii libncursesw6 6.5-2
ii libtinfo6 6.5-2
ii lynx-common 2.9.2-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg-3.1
Versions of packages lynx recommends:
ii mailcap 3.71
lynx suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: lynx
Source-Version: 2.9.3-1
Done: Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lynx, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> (supplier of updated lynx package)
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Date: Sat, 30 May 2026 13:43:40 +0200
Source: lynx
Architecture: source
Version: 2.9.3-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lynx Packaging Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>
Closes: 1072504
Changes:
lynx (2.9.3-1) experimental; urgency=medium
.
* New upstream version.
+ Drop cherry-picked patch.
+ Update copyright info.
+ Modify mailcap "test=" handling to redirect stdout/stderr to /dev/null
(Closes: #1072504)
* [lintian] Drop redundant Priority: optional.
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