wget is not built with metalink support

[phlummox]

The man page describes a "--metalink-over-http" option to wget:

       --metalink-over-http
           Issues HTTP HEAD request instead of GET and extracts Metalink metadata from response headers. Then it switches to Metalink download.
           If no valid Metalink metadata is found, it falls back to ordinary HTTP download. Enables Content-Type: application/metalink4+xml
           files download/processing.

However, attempting to use the "--metalink-over-http" option results in an error:

    $ wget --metalink-over-http https://www.example.com/
    wget: unrecognized option '--metalink-over-http'
    Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...

    Try `wget --help' for more options.

(I assume the error occurs because the Ubuntu version of wget is built without passing the `--with-metalink` flag to `configure`.)

Since the man page should correctly describe the options wget can take, the `--metalink-over-http` section of it should be removed.

(The same might apply to the man page discussion of `--metalink-index`, `--input-metalink`, `--keep-badhash`, `--preferred-location`, since those options mention metalinks, but I haven't investigated further.)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

wget is not built with metalink support.

CPPFLAGS="-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now" ../configure \
  --prefix=/usr \
  --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man \
  --infodir=\${prefix}/share/info \
  --sysconfdir=/etc \
  --enable-ipv6 \
  --with-ssl=openssl \
  --without-libpsl \
  --disable-debug \
  --disable-nls \
  --disable-iri --build x86_64-linux-gnu

From https://launchpadlibrarian.net/581938897/buildlog_ubuntu-jammy-amd64.wget_1.21.2-2ubuntu1_BUILDING.txt.gz

[phlummox (phlummox)]

Ken Sharp: "wget is not built with metalink support" is not the bug I reported.

The bug I reported has to do with the accuracy of the man page. If other people feel that having (or not having) particular wget features enabled is a bug, then generally, I'd expect that to be opened as a separate issue.