• Bug#1109354: liblzma-dev: Broken symlink usr/share/doc/liblzma-dev/THAN

    From Evan Daykin@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 15 21:00:01 2025
    Package: liblzma-dev
    Version: 5.8.1-1
    Severity: minor
    X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

    Hello,

    We have an internal package requiring liblzma-dev, and our CI infrastructure correctly pointed out that the symlink:

    /usr/share/doc/liblzma-dev/THANKS -> ../liblzma5/THANKS

    is broken. I can reproduce it by apt installing liblzma-dev, then checking for broken symlinks with:

    find /usr/share/doc/liblzma-dev -type l ! -exec test -e {} \; -print

    Cheers,
    Evan

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 13.0
    APT prefers testing
    APT policy: (500, 'testing')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

    Kernel: Linux 6.11.0-29-generic (SMP w/14 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
    Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C), LANGUAGE not set
    Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
    Init: unable to detect

    Versions of packages liblzma-dev depends on:
    ii liblzma5 5.8.1-1

    liblzma-dev recommends no packages.

    Versions of packages liblzma-dev suggests:
    pn liblzma-doc <none>

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