Developers of Sympa

[Jérôme Marant <address@concealed>]

Hi,

  Yet another bug report I've just received.

  Cheers,

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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:25:00 +1000 (EST)
From: address@concealed
Reply-To: address@concealed,address@concealed
Subject: Bug#117150: sympa: mhonarc resource file has broken img tags, lack 
alt 
text.
To: address@concealed

Package: sympa
Version: 3.2.1-3
Severity: important

The mhonarc resource file that comes with sympa, and that is used for
creating the HTML archives, has a couple of very major flaws as shipped:

The next/previous buttons in the generated HTML are *only* implemented
as images, using an IMG tag. This is to "/icons/left.gif" and
"/icons/right.gif"
which *do not exist* in the sympa (or wwsympa) packages at all.

Worse, there is nothing that configures /icons by default in the package for
the webserver software, nor is there any note about this.

To make matters worse ... the HTML in the configuration uses these images
*without* adding an 'ALT' attribute to supply text to users who don't have
image display capability in their browser.

This also means that a fully graphical browser (Mozilla, Galeon, Netscape)
displays *NO* forward or back navication in the archives. It wasn't until
I actually went and read the HTML source that I noted the issue -- I thought
that the archiving system was quite broken until then.

It's fairly trivial to change these values in the resource file but the
images are still missing.

        Daniel


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux inanna 2.4.13 #1 Wed Oct 24 19:58:47 EST 2001 i686
unknown

Versions of the packages sympa depends on:
ii  adduser        3.42           Add and remove users and groups to resp. fro
ii  debconf        1.0.17         Debian configuration management system
ii  libc6          2.2.4-3        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libdbd-pg-perl 1.01-1         a PostgreSQL interface for Perl 5 using DBI.
ii  libdbi-perl    1.19-1         The Perl5 Database Interface by Tim Bunce
ii  libio-stringy- 2.108-1        Perl5 modules for IO from scalars and arrays
ii  libmd5-perl    2.02-2         backwards-compatible wrapper for Digest::MD5
ii  libmime-base64 2.12-4         MIME/Base64 decoding for Perl
ii  libmime-perl   5.410-1        Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant messages (M
ii  libmsgcat-perl 1.03-2         Locale::Msgcat perl module
ii  mailtools      1.40-3         Package to facilitate upgrades
ii  perl           5.6.1-5        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report
ii  sysklogd       1.4.1-2        System logging daemons
sendmail        Not installed or no info
sendmail-tls    Not installed or no info
ii  postfix        0.0.20011008.S A high-performance mail transport agent
        ^^^ (Provides virtual package mail-transport-agent)
libdbd-mysql-perl       Not installed or no info

--- Ignoring conffile /etc/sympa/sympa.conf-smime.in (not world readable)


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Jérôme Marant <address@concealed>