[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#999682: Bug#999682: erlang-mode: Broken symlinks in man/man3

[Sebas Olsson]

Ah, thank you so much for quick response.

I'll look into manpages-dev and potentially file an issue there instead.

Best regards

On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 at 15:50, Sergei Golovan <sgolovan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sebastian.
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:57 AM Sebastian Olsson <visnae at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Package: erlang-mode
> > Version: 1:23.2.6+dfsg-1
> > Severity: normal
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: visnae at gmail.com
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > I installed the erlang package on an Debian bullseye docker container to
> perform the following escript:
>
> Erlang packages do not come with these manpages. In fact, erlang-mode
> just contains a link /usr/lib/erlang/man -> /usr/share/man, so I guess
> your script just tries to copy all manpages to the container. And it
> breaks if it can't dereference a link.
>
> I'm not sure I can do anything about it. But you're welcome to submit
> bugs to the packages with these symlinks
> (/usr/share/man/man3/LIST_EMPTY.3 is in manpages-dev for example).
>
> Cheers!
> --
> Sergei Golovan
>
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