Bug#1134366: www.debian.org: packages.debian.org requires javascript

Hi,

Am 19. April 2026 10:33:12 MESZ schrieb Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]>:
>If I run e.g.
>links https://packages.debian.org/bash
>
>I get:
>   JavaScript is disabled in your browser.
>
>   Please enable JavaScript to proceed.
>
>   A required part of this site couldn’t load. This may be due to a browser extension, network issues, or browser settings. Please check your connection, disable any ad blockers, or try using a different browser.

I'm unable to reproduce this with different browsers.

>Of course, links does not understand javascript.
>
>I did this because some of the scripts for manpages-l10n[1] time out/fail 
>currently and I'm checking why.

Maybe you should be more verbose about these scripts. Such as a salsa URL? 
Are you sure, these scripts are accessing packages.debian.org? I guess not.

Which error messages do you see from these scripts?

Otherwise, I fear noone can do anything on this bug...


Holger

>Please re-enable access without Javascript required so that (Debian)
>infrastructure continues to work.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Greetings
>
>          Helge
>
>[1] Manpages-l10n downloads lots of packages from e.g. Debian to extract
>    the manual pages to translate. 
>

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