[Python-modules-team] Bug#857510: wand-doc, sphinx: broken symlink: /usr/share/doc/wand-doc/html/_static/websupport.js -> ../../../../javascript/sphinxdoc/1.0/websupport.js

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: wand-doc,sphinx
Version: 0.4.4-1.1
Severity: normal
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package ships (or creates)
a broken symlink.

>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

0m21.5s ERROR: FAIL: Broken symlinks:
  /usr/share/doc/wand-doc/html/_static/websupport.js -> ../../../../javascript/sphinxdoc/1.0/websupport.js

There is no .../javascript/sphinxdoc/1.0/websupport.js in
libjs-sphinxdoc ...
therefore assigning the bug to both wand and sphinx.
I tested rebuilding the package in current sid (in case that was
built with either something ancient or something from experimental),
but it still contains the websupport symlink.

apt-file search _static/websupport.js | wc -l
reports 148 occurrences in sid ...
Only a few of these depend on libjs-sphinxdoc, and even fewer use
symlinks to javascript/sphinxdoc/1.0/*.js. But there is at least one
that looks similar to wand-doc: salt-doc (and I stopped looking at
further packages, having started at the end of the list so this was
number 3 or 4).
The notable difference is that salt-doc ships websupport.js as a file
and not as a symlink.

I have *not* looked at the wand source package to determine whether
wand or sphinx is responsible for the broken symlink.


cheers,

Andreas
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