So wrote Justin Pryzby on Thursday, 9 March 2006:
> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:35:21 -0500
> From: Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Bug#356122: lynx is unusable in sid
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126
>
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:46:47PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:17:57PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > Package: lynx
> > > > Version: 2.8.5-2sarge1
> > > > Severity: high
> > > This isn't a valid severity
> > >
> > > > Lynx has some serious problem. When it is started from the
> > > > command-line, is simply displays a blank screen with the text at the
> > > > bottom:
> > > >
> > > > desc=microsoft D)ownload, or C)ancel
> > > My lynx does no such thing
> > >
> > > > this almost looks like some kind of malicious trojan or something!
> > > Please send the output of:
> > >
> > > md5sum /usr/bin/lynx.stable
> > > update-alternatives --list lynx
> > > which lynx
> > > readlink `which lynx`
> > > readlink -f `which lynx`
> >
> >
> > $ md5sum /usr/bin/lynx.stable
> > 129b94db3035f75bfd98720f4b1e7436 /usr/bin/lynx.stable
> This is correct for lynx 2.8.5-2sarge1.
>
> > $ readlink `which lynx`
> > ../../etc/alternatives/lynx
> This is mildly strange; I have
> $ readlink `which lynx`
> /etc/alternatives/lynx
yes I use the symlinks command to convert absolute links to relative
>
> Could you preserve the current lynx files first:
>
> dpkg -L lynx |{ cd /; xargs tar --no-recursion -uf /tmp/lynx-old.tar; }
>
> And then
>
> apt-get --reinstall install lynx?
>
i did it but the behavior of lynx hasn't changed
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