Invalid symbolic links

[Alexander Gieg]

Binary package hint: kde-l10n-ptbr

There are a lot of invalid symbolic links on both the kde-l10n-pt and kde-l10n-ptbr packages (and probably others, but I haven't checked). They can be found with the following command:

$ find -L /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/* -type l -exec ls -l "{}" \;

And they all follow these four basic patterns (see the attached file for the full list):

/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/pt/*/common -> ../common
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/pt/*/*/common -> ../../common
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/pt_BR/*/common -> ../common
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/pt_BR/*/*/common -> ../../common

All the while the linked to /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/(pt or pt_BR)/common directories don't exist.

My guess is the correct destination for all the above links should be /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/common/, provided mostly by kdelibs5-data, hence:

/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/pt/*/common -> ../../en/common
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/pt/*/*/common -> ../../../en/common
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/pt_BR/*/common -> ../../en/common
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/pt_BR/*/*/common -> ../../../en/common

Although maybe a more generic solution, such as moving this "common" directory to it's own distinctive place, say /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/common, then linking everything to it, including the English locale's one.

My system:

- Ubuntu 9.04 (updated from 8.10)
- kde-l10n-pt 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu3
- kde-l10n-ptbr 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu3
- kdelibs5-data 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu5

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Upstream KDE just committed a fix for this bug, which unfortunately missed inclusion in KDE 4.3.1 by a day... It'll make KDE 4.3.2 though.

This bug also doesn't affect kdelibs, only the l10n packages, so I'm closing the kdelibs task.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Fix released to Karmic.