Re: Upgrade glitches

[mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:50:30AM +0100, Nick Phillips wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:52:58PM -0400, mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu wrote:
> 
> > I still haven't heard from the lynx maintainer despite emailing him several
> > times and NMUing twice (fixing other problems).  The lynx-ssl maintainer
> > is active, however, but he tends to incorporate changes made in lynx
> > into his own source package.
> > 
> > Perhaps someone should see about taking care of lynx; I would but I don't
> > have the time that the package needs (looking at the list of bugs...).
> 
> How does w3m compare to lynx in this respect? Personally I much prefer
> w3m in use and one of the first things I do on a fresh system is to purge
> lynx and install w3m. Is there any particular reason why lynx is "standard"
> and w3m "optional"?

debhelper used to depend on lynx as well.  I see joeyh has changed that to 
html2text now, a wise decision most likely.

> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Nick
> 
> -- 
> Nick Phillips -- nwp@lemon-computing.com
> You will be a winner today.  Pick a fight with a four-year-old.

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