Package: wget Version: 1.10.2-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch I believe that there is a bug in the manpage wget(1). /usr/share/man/man1/wget.1.gz
The example involving follow/no-follow says the opposite of what I expect. If I understand the example, then: normal factory default: off (no-follow) local default set in wgetrc: on (follow) user option needed to restore default: (no-follow) I therefore propose the attached patch (relative to the etch version of wget, but the same goes for the current lenny version). I hope this helps. Best wishes and thanks... Jeremy -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-k7 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages wget depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8c-4etch4 SSL shared libraries wget recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
--- wget.1 2006-06-28 17:41:30.000000000 +0100 +++ wget.1.new 2009-01-21 12:44:58.000000000 +0000 @@ -228,8 +228,8 @@ \&\fB\-\-no\-\fR prefix. This might seem superfluous\-\-\-if the default for an affirmative option is to not do something, then why provide a way to explicitly turn it off? But the startup file may in fact change -the default. For instance, using \f(CW\*(C`follow_ftp = off\*(C'\fR in -\&\fI.wgetrc\fR makes Wget \fInot\fR follow \s-1FTP\s0 links by default, and +the default. For instance, using \f(CW\*(C`follow_ftp = on\*(C'\fR in +\&\fI.wgetrc\fR makes Wget \fIfollow\fR \s-1FTP\s0 links by default, and using \fB\-\-no\-follow\-ftp\fR is the only way to restore the factory default from the command line. .Sh "Basic Startup Options"
