[Piuparts-devel] Bug#709372: option to ignore broken symlinks

[Jakub Wilk]

* Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>, 2013-05-22, 21:59:
>http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze2wheezy/pass/debian-edu-artwork_0.0.33-3.log has the following adequate issues:
>
>1m29.2s DEBUG: Starting command: ['adequate', '--root', '/srv/piuparts.debian.org/tmp/tmp35wC4J', 'debian-edu-artwork']
>1m29.3s DUMP:
>  debian-edu-artwork: broken-symlink /usr/share/ldm/themes/debian-edu/host.png -> ../ltsp/host.png
>  debian-edu-artwork: broken-symlink /usr/share/ldm/themes/debian-edu/reboot.png -> ../ltsp/reboot.png
>  debian-edu-artwork: broken-symlink /usr/share/ldm/themes/debian-edu/shutdown.png -> ../ltsp/shutdown.png
>  debian-edu-artwork: broken-symlink /usr/share/ldm/themes/debian-edu/bg.png -> ../ltsp/bg.png
>  debian-edu-artwork: broken-symlink /usr/share/ldm/themes/debian-edu/session.png -> ../ltsp/session.png
>  debian-edu-artwork: broken-symlink /usr/share/ldm/themes/debian-edu/language.png -> ../ltsp/language.png
>1m29.3s DEBUG: Command ok: ['adequate', '--root', '/srv/piuparts.debian.org/tmp/tmp35wC4J', 'debian-edu-artwork']
>
>piuparts also detects broken symlinks so it would be nice if there was 
>an option to run adequate without a check for broken symlinks.

I'm not opposed to the idea of adding such option to adequate, but it 
might be easier and faster to fix it on piuparts side. Something like 
this should do the trick:

output = re.compile('^[^:]+: broken-symlink .*\n', re.MULTILINE).sub('', output)

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Jakub Wilk