Bug#312950: devhelp: Broken links bugs is caused by #62454 bug in dhelp

[Balbir Thomas]

Package: devhelp
Version: 0.9.3-1
Followup-For: Bug #312950


Hi,

I gather this broken links bugs is caused by a bug
(#62454) in install-docs which can not handle symlinks
to directories. #62454 is 5 years old now so it looks
like it may be a better idea to work around it than
wait for a resolution. (perhaps consider re-organizing
directories so that  dhelp control files don't point
to symlinked directories.)

regards
b thomas


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages devhelp depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.8.0-4         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0            0.2.6-6         Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.8.1-2         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.8.1-2         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-22    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdevhelp-1-0           0.9.3-1         Library providing documentation br
ii  libesd0                  0.2.35-2        Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4              2.8.1-6         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11              1.2.0-11.1      LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.4.2-2       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.4-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0        0.4.2-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0              2.8.1-2         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.8.0-1         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.8.1-3         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.8.4-4         The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11              1.0.16-13.1     GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0            1.0-1           library for common error values an
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.4-3         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                6b-10           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2                1:2.12.2-1      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.8.1-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-2               0.2.10-3        Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                  2.6.16-7        GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-4       compression library - runtime

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