Bug 10019

Summary: "cleanlinks" removes non-dangling absolute symlinks
Product: xorg Reporter: Brice Goglin <brice.goglin>
Component: Build/MonolithicAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium Keywords: patch
Version: 7.2 (2007.02)   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=204363
Whiteboard: 2011BRB_Reviewed
i915 platform: i915 features:
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Description Flags
proposed cleanlinks none

Description Brice Goglin 2007-02-18 08:37:30 UTC 
Bug reported to the Debian BTS by Florian Ernst about 3,5 years ago, still applies.

According to its manpage "cleanlinks" does only remove dangling 
symlinks and empty directories, so I'd expect it not to remove a 
symlink to an existing unempty directory. But:

$ ls -Al
lrwxrwxrwx 1 fernst fernst 5 2003-08-06 18:22 home -> /home/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 fernst fernst 21 2003-08-06 18:22 .xinitrc -> /home/fernst/.xinitrc*
$ cleanlinks
./home is a dangling symlink, removing
Removing empty directories ...
$ ls -Al
lrwxrwxrwx 1 fernst fernst 21 2003-08-06 18:22 .xinitrc -> /home/fernst/.xinitrc*

Some patches have been proposed on the Debian BTS (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=204363) without people being able to decide what's the best. As a result, a patch to update the manpage about this bug has been provided too. Feel free to choose any solution.
Comment 1 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:36:30 UTC 
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Comment 2 Fabio Correa 2007-12-31 07:23:48 UTC 
Created attachment 13436 [details]
proposed cleanlinks

The suggested cleanlinks script includes the apropriate handling of absolute symlinks and some code cleanup.
Comment 3 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2011-10-03 00:18:06 UTC 
imake is dead.  Do you still care about this?  If so, bug someone to review it. 
 If not, I'll close it as WONTFIX.
Comment 4 Adam Jackson 2018-06-12 19:07:32 UTC 
Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not
obviously still valid. Please reopen this bug or file a new report if you continue to experience issues with current releases.

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