#1037083 wget: man page lists 'metalink' options but binary not compiled with metalink support

Package:
wget
Source:
wget
Description:
retrieves files from the web
Submitter:
Stuart Prescott
Date:
2023-06-04 05:15:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1037083#5
Date:
2023-06-04 05:12:32 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

A user in #debian on irc.debian.org was asking about how to use wget to
download from metalink files.

The man page describes the following metalink options:
    --input-metalink=file
    --metalink-over-http
    --metalink-index=number

but the binary doesn't know about them:

    wget: unrecognized option '--input-metalink'

because it hasn't been compiled with metalink support:

   wget --version
   … -metalink …

Please update the documentation to match the package compilation
options.

Thanks!
Stuart