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evolution-common installs thousands of broken symlinks

Bug #1089546 reported by Rolf Leggewie on 2012-12-12

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	evolution (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Some examples of dangling symlinks. The full list is in the attachment

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 Apr 11 2012 /usr/share/gnome/help/evolution/hu/contacts-autocompletion.page -> ../../../help-langpack/evolution/hu/contacts-autocompletion.page
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 Apr 11 2012 /usr/share/gnome/help/evolution/hu/exporting-data-contacts.page -> ../../../help-langpack/evolution/hu/exporting-data-contacts.page
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 Apr 11 2012 /usr/share/gnome/help/evolution/hu/sync-with-other-devices.page -> ../../../help-langpack/evolution/hu/sync-with-other-devices.page

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote on 2012-12-12:

dangling-symlinks.txt Edit (262.0 KiB, text/plain)

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote on 2019-02-04:

I am surprised to find this is still broken as you can easily verify via "file /usr/share/help/*/evolution/*.page" which will return among others "/usr/share/help/zh_CN/evolution/using-categories.page: broken symbolic link to ../../../help-langpack/zh_CN/evolution/using-categories.page"

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
tags:	added: bionic
summary:	- evolution-common 3.2.3-0ubuntu6 installs 3190 broken symlinks in precise + evolution-common 3.2.3-0ubuntu6 installs 3190 broken symlinks
summary:	- evolution-common 3.2.3-0ubuntu6 installs 3190 broken symlinks + evolution-common 3.2.3-0ubuntu6 installs thousands of broken symlinks
summary:	- evolution-common 3.2.3-0ubuntu6 installs thousands of broken symlinks + evolution-common installs thousands of broken symlinks

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote on 2019-02-04:

So, it looks like the file being linked to is in language-pack-gnome-zh-hans-base. The sensible thing to do would be to move the link to that file as well.