Bug 83521

Summary:	The debuginfo package contains a bunch of dead symlinks
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Component:	freetype	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	1.0	CC:	alexl
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Description Mike A. Harris 2003-02-05 05:13:45 UTC

Freetype debuginfo package has a bunch of dead symlinks that get reported
by rpmlint:

W: freetype-debuginfo dangling-symlink
/usr/src/debug/freetype-2.1.3/freetype-pre1.4/lib/memory.c
/usr/src/build/217565-x86_64/BUILD/freetype-2.1.3/freetype-pre1.4/lib/arch/unix/../../ttmemory.c
W: freetype-debuginfo symlink-should-be-relative
/usr/src/debug/freetype-2.1.3/freetype-pre1.4/lib/memory.c
/usr/src/build/217565-x86_64/BUILD/freetype-2.1.3/freetype-pre1.4/lib/arch/unix/../../ttmemory.c
W: freetype-debuginfo dangling-symlink
/usr/src/debug/freetype-2.1.3/freetype-pre1.4/lib/file.c
/usr/src/build/217565-x86_64/BUILD/freetype-2.1.3/freetype-pre1.4/lib/arch/unix/../../arch/unix/ttmmap.c
W: freetype-debuginfo symlink-should-be-relative
/usr/src/debug/freetype-2.1.3/freetype-pre1.4/lib/file.c
/usr/src/build/217565-x86_64/BUILD/freetype-2.1.3/freetype-pre1.4/lib/arch/unix/../../arch/unix/ttmmap.c
W: freetype-debuginfo dangling-symlink
/usr/src/debug/freetype-2.1.3/freetype-pre1.4/lib/mutex.c
/usr/src/build/217565-x86_64/BUILD/freetype-2.1.3/freetype-pre1.4/lib/arch/unix/../../ttmutex.c
W: freetype-debuginfo symlink-should-be-relative
/usr/src/debug/freetype-2.1.3/freetype-pre1.4/lib/mutex.c
/usr/src/build/217565-x86_64/BUILD/freetype-2.1.3/freetype-pre1.4/lib/arch/unix/../../ttmutex.c


The example above is x86_64, however it occurs on all architectures.

Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2003-02-05 05:18:11 UTC

What version of the freetype package?

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2003-02-05 05:30:25 UTC

freetype-2.1.3-6

Comment 3 Owen Taylor 2003-02-11 21:41:58 UTC

Alex -- it should "just work" in all cases, right?

Comment 4 Alexander Larsson 2003-02-12 09:00:27 UTC

debuginfo package creation is not that smart. All the source filenames
referenced in the debug info are added to the package. If these are symlinks i
guess we only get the symlink. Maybe we should add --dereference to the cpio
call that makes the copy.

Comment 5 Owen Taylor 2003-08-28 18:52:15 UTC

Was fixed in freetype-2.1.4-1