lynx should have information in the homepage field

[Shirish Agarwal]

Binary package hint: lynx-cur

Using apt-get or aptitude and seeing either lynx or lynx-cur info. I don't see the browser's homepage .

$ aptitude show lynx
Package: lynx
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.8.7dev10-2.1ubuntu1
Priority: extra
Section: web
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 45.1k
Depends: lynx-cur (>= 2.8.7dev10-2.1ubuntu1)
Description: Text-mode WWW Browser (transitional package)
 This is a transitional package and can safely be removed; see the lynx-cur package instead.

OR

$ aptitude show lynx-cur
Package: lynx-cur
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 2.8.7dev10-2.1ubuntu1
Priority: extra
Section: web
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 4825k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8), libgcrypt11 (>= 1.4.0), libgnutls26 (>= 2.4.0-0), libncursesw5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3),
         zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Recommends: mime-support
Suggests: lynx-cur-wrapper
Conflicts: lynx (< 2.8.7dev9-1.1), lynx-ssl
Provides: news-reader, www-browser
Description: Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS support (development version)
 Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display
 devices. It is very fast and easy to use. It will display HTML documents containing links to files residing on
 the local system, as well as files residing on remote systems running Gopher, HTTP, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP servers.

 This package contains a development version of lynx. For a known-stable version, please see the lynx package
 instead.

Now see a random package

$ aptitude show listen
Package: listen
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 0.5-5ubuntu2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/sound
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 2159k
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.3.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6
         (>= 2.3.5), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.1), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.21.6), zlib1g (>=
         1:1.1.4), python-central (>= 0.6.7), gstreamer0.10-alsa, python-gtk2, python-pyogg (>= 1.3-1.1),
         python-pymad, python-dbus, python-gnome2, python-gnome2-extras, gstreamer0.10-plugins-good,
         python-gst0.10 (>= 0.10.4-4), gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, python-pysqlite2, python-pyvorbis (>= 1.3),
         python-mutagen (>= 1.8), xulrunner-1.9, python-glade2, notification-daemon
Recommends: gstreamer0.10-x, python-musicbrainz2, python-tunepimp (>= 0.5), gnome-icon-theme
Suggests: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly, python-gpod, libgpod2 (>= 0.3.2), serpentine,
          gstreamer0.10-esd
Description: music player and manager for GNOME
 Listen is an audio player which helps you to organize your music collections.

 It supports many features such as Podcasts management, browse Shoutcast directory, and provides direct access to
 lyrics, lastfm and wikipedia information.

 It intuitively creates playlists for you by retrieving information from lastfm and what you most frequently
 listen to.
Homepage: http://www.listen-project.org/

OR if you prefer another text browser

$ aptitude show links2
Package: links2
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.2-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 3080k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdirectfb-1.0-0, libgpm2 (>= 1.20.4), libjpeg62, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libssl0.9.8
         (>= 0.9.8f-5), libsvga1, libtiff4, libx11-6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Provides: www-browser
Description: Web browser running in both graphics and text mode
 Links is a graphics and text mode WWW browser, similar to Lynx. It displays tables, frames, downloads on
 background, uses HTTP/1.1 keepalive connections. In graphics mode it displays PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and XBM
 pictures, runs external bindings on other types, and features anti-aliased font, smooth image zooming, 48-bit
 dithering, and gamma and aspect ratio correction.
Homepage: http://links.twibright.com/

The bottom line there should be a homepage line and this link http://lynx.isc.org/

Homepage:http://lynx.isc.org/ should be attached to the same.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: lynx 2.8.7dev10-2.1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_IN
SourcePackage: lynx-cur
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Arnaud Soyez (weboide)]

confirmed for:
lynx 2.8.6-2.1ubuntu3
lynx-cur 2.8.7dev9-1ubuntu1

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Fixed in lynx-cur 2.8.7dev10-4, which I just synced into Jaunty.