I'm not interested and I can't maintain this package anymore. It hasn't been updated since 2011 and needs a serious refresh :
- - a lot of new recommandations have been published and updated since last upload
- - debian packaging practices have changed too.
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Colin Darie writes:

Okay.  In the unlikely event that a third competent person
wishes to adopt this package, my own time is limited, so I'd
happily yield.  However, insofar as five years have passed, I
assume that there probably exists no third person.

In that case, I'd be glad to adopt the package.

Still, let's give a third person a week or two to show up
before I step forward.  Thanks.

Thanks for your work on this package, Colin.  It does not look
as though any other competent person were stepping forward to
maintain the package, so I will adopt it.

at least probably need to fix that bug on my own PC.
Therefore, I am off hacking that other source.

    1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=847216

This message is to Tim Rühsen, upstream developer of Wget,
and Noël Köthe, maintainer of Wget's Debian package.

Summary: Tim recommends that I convert my code for wget2.
Meanwhile, I can locally work around this bug.  Only the
arrival of wget2 is likely to close the bug.

Details follow.

Tim writes:
possible -- though "as soon as possible" is not very precise,
is it?  As always, time is limited.  We shall see.

I think that Tim is right: wget2 will help.  One would rather
not retire a working program like wget1, but now I understand
why my bug has never been fixed.  The relevant code is just not
straightforward.  One could hack an inelegant solution into
wget1, but the edge-case logic of src/convert.c
register_download() is hard to understand.  That function
seems to pretend to enforce an invariant but, as far as I can
tell, does not actually enforce one.  In short, the function is
confusing, it's brittle, the comments in it may be incorrect,
and one fears to touch it lest it break.  (Amusingly, the
function has a goto in it.  I am not one to deprecate goto
generally -- occasionally, I even like goto -- but this
particular goto may be a symptom of trouble.)

For reference (Noël, you need not follow the link; it's just
for reference), my post to bug-wget is linked [1].

    1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2016-12/msg00011.html

At any rate, with the benefit of your kind advice, I believe
that I can now probably hack my own, local copy of wget2 well
enough to work around Debian bugs #836943 [2] and #842472 [3]
until wget2 arrives.

    2: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836943
    3: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842472

For additional reference (Tim, you need not follow any of these
links; they're just for reference), the bug log against
Debian's wget package is also linked [4].

    4: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=847216

And here is Peng Yu's original bug report in the year 2010 [5]
with Giuseppe Scrivano's reply [6].

    5: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2010-05/msg00051.html
    6: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2010-05/msg00052.html

Tim's email address is obscured (Bcc) in the header
because Tim didn't ask me to publish the address, but I
suppose that Noël probably has it.  Replies sent
to <847216@bugs.debian.org> will reach both Noël and me,
at any rate.

Thanks for the help.  Noël, you can decide whether to leave
this Debian bug report #847216 open or to close it.  I would
probably leave it open but, basically, this bug awaits wget2.

Control: tags -1 - upstream

Hopefully, this should be the last email Colin Darie receives
regarding this bug report.  Future emails should go only
to Thaddeus H. Black.

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