[Docker-maint] Bug#747968: Bug#747968: golang-doc: dangling symlink in package

Michael Stapelberg stapelberg at debian.org
Sun Jun 1 10:50:18 UTC 2014


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Hi Tianon,

Tianon Gravi <admwiggin at gmail.com> writes:

> On 13 May 2014 11:08, Laurent Bonnaud <L.Bonnaud at laposte.net> wrote:
>> $ symlinks /usr/lib/go/lib/
>> dangling: /usr/lib/go/lib/godoc -> ../../../share/doc/golang-doc/godoc
>
> I've looked into this a little bit and it comes from this line:
> debian/golang-doc.links:2:usr/share/doc/golang-doc/godoc /usr/lib/go/lib/godoc
>
> Looking at the package in wheezy, /usr/share/doc/golang-doc/godoc has
> a few HTML files in it and /usr/share/doc/golang-doc/html does as
> well, but in sid, only /usr/share/doc/golang-doc/html has files in it
> (hence the dangling symlink).
>
> Is this symlink still necessary for the proper functioning of "godoc"?
>  Perhaps still a layover from the move of "godoc" over to
> golang-go.tools?
Yeah, it seems like godoc from golang-go.tools has those files compiled
in. I’ve removed the symlink in
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-golang/golang.git;a=commitdiff;h=3bb719bbf3cdb97b3901f3baaa2da9d02a5c3cdb

-- 
Best regards,
Michael




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