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

[Sebas Olsson]

For full disclosure it's already tracked in this issue.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=973885

Best regards

On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 at 16:28, Sebas Olsson <visnae at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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