wget man missing documentation

[delliott]

Binary package hint: wget

Summary:

The wget man page contains a sentence that appears to have been truncated.

Actual behaviour:

The description of the option --no-proxy reads:

       --no-proxy
           Don’t use proxies, even if the appropriate *_proxy environment variable is defined.

           For more information about the use of proxies with Wget,

It is my belief that the documentation for this option has been truncated.

Expected behaviour:

I expect to see the rest of the sentence after the , character in the second sentence described above.

System details:

Ubuntu 7.10 i386
wget 1.10.2-3ubuntu1

[delliott (onlineid)]

The Debian stable, testing, and unstable binaries as provided at http://packages.debian.org/{etch, testing, unstable}/i386/wget/download all feature the bug that I have reported. This can be observed in the data.tar.gz/usr/share/man/man1/wget.1.tar.gz/wget.1 file inside the .deb file that is available for download.

If you build the source as provided at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.10.2.tar.gz then the doc/wget.1 file also features the bug that I have reported.

[Micah Cowan (micahcowan)]

This issue has been fixed in upstream sources, Wget version 1.11. The best option is probably to wait for the next sync (after the Debian package has been issued). See relevant upstream changesets http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/1.11/rev/35cd2b77a6ac and http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/1.11/rev/5221ff559215.