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and subject line Re: Bug#877787: bug in lynx 2.8.8pre4-1 (Ubuntu 14.04): not
all links are parsed
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Package: lynx
Version: 2.8.8pre4-1
Bug: I am using Ubuntu 14.04. Not all links are parsed. For example, do the
following.
lynx -dump https://www.nytimes.com/ >n.txt; view n.txt
You will see the following (mid day October 5, 2017) in the text file.
Inside Nytimes.com
(BUTTON)
Go to the previous story
(BUTTON)
Go to the next story
1. [129]Television
Best of Late Night: Back Off, Tillerson Is Told
2. [130]Opinion
Another Nobel Prize for the Fruit Fly
3. [131]Science
A Tortoise Is Winning Its Race With Extinction
4. [132]Smarter Living
Answers to Common Relationship Problems
There are no links to the articles "Best of Late Night: Back Off, Tillerson Is
Told", "Another Nobel Prize for the Fruit Fly", etc., only links to
"Television", etc. When viewed in a browser (Firefox, Chrome, etc.), the links
are all there.
% dpkg -l | grep lynx
ii lynx 2.8.8pre4-1
all Text-mode WWW Browser (transitional
package)
ii lynx-cur 2.8.8pre4-1
amd64 Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS
support (development version)
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On 2017-10-05 Elimar Riesebieter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 +unreproducible +wontfix
[...]
> I can't reproduce this with 2.8.9dev16-1 => Debian sid version.
> > % dpkg -l | grep lynx
> > ii lynx 2.8.8pre4-1
> > ii lynx-cur 2.8.8pre4-1
> You can't expect that your lynx version 2.8.8pre4-1 from Wed, 05 Feb
> 2014 will be fixed. I advice you to upgrade to a recent version of
> lynx. Check out your preferred Linux distro and upgrade to a more
> recent version. Therefor I tag this bug as wontfix so far.
Let's close it then.
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