Created attachment 427518 [details] Badly rendered html Using w3m in my mutt mailcap to render html, I stumbled upon a most annoying bug in that didn't happen on my Arch install: the attached html doesn't render accentuated characters properly. So I tried to see what was the difference between the two distributions, and it looks like Arch (and Debian) uses a different, forked upstream that fixed a lot of bugs (including mine): https://github.com/tats/w3m Seeing that the real upstream is pretty much dead, that some rather serious bugs are fixed in this fork (see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tats/w3m/master/ChangeLog) and that the compilation process isn't that different, wouldn't an upstream change be beneficial for Gentoo too? PS: I used 'elinks -dump -force-html -no-numbering -no-references' in mutt to temporarly fix the problem.
It looks like https://github.com/tats/w3m is actually a mirror for https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/w3m.git/
Actually, I'm collaborating with the Debian maintainer, and already pulling necessary patch from there (e.g. files/w3m-0.5.3-url-schema.patch). Please specify the problem so that I'll find patch and add it to Gentoo tree.
> the attached html doesn't render accentuated characters properly. And this seems to happen by a configuration knob: "Use ASCII equivalents to display entities (*)YES ( )NO"
You're right, sorry for the false alarm. Still, I don't understand why the defaults are not the same for the fork and why we should works with a lot of patches instead of using a clean fork.
Created attachment 454656 [details] w3m-0.5.3-r9.ebuild @naota what do you think if we directly tracking the github repository? attach ebuild is a prototype of this idea, also could you help to check which patches we have to forward port to the new version? as I haven't looked at them, nor am I familiar with ..
commit 8980adf0be95c6fa394f71a2b7ff63b475c87aa5 Author: Yixun Lan <dlan@gentoo.org> Date: Sat Dec 3 13:47:12 2016 +0800 www-client/w3m: version bump, fix various security issue 1) tracking new repo source from github https://github.com/tats/w3m 2) fix various security issue, see bug 600176 3) drop USE=vanilla, since all patches accepted by upstream Gentoo-Bug: 576514, 600176 Package-Manager: portage-2.3.2 Signed-off-by: Yixun Lan <dlan@gentoo.org> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8980adf0be95c6fa394f71a2b7ff63b475c87aa5
