tag 301786 patch thanks Here's a simple patch to make it use find instead of symlinks. It takes advantage of fine -follow exiting nonzero if it encounters a broken link.
-- see shy jo
diff -ur old/docbook-4.3/debian/control docbook-4.3/debian/control
--- old/docbook-4.3/debian/control 2005-03-31 13:06:04.000000000 -1000
+++ docbook-4.3/debian/control 2005-03-31 13:03:04.000000000 -1000
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Standards-Version: 3.5.8
-Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 4.1.31), symlinks
+Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 4.1.31)
Package: docbook
Architecture: all
diff -ur old/docbook-4.3/debian/rules docbook-4.3/debian/rules
--- old/docbook-4.3/debian/rules 2005-03-31 13:06:04.000000000 -1000
+++ docbook-4.3/debian/rules 2005-03-31 13:05:56.000000000 -1000
@@ -52,8 +52,7 @@
find docbk* -name '*.txt' | xargs dh_installdocs
# check for bad links
- DANGLING=`symlinks -r $(PREFIX) | grep dangling | wc -l` ;\
- if [ $${DANGLING} -ne 0 ]; then exit 1; fi
+ find $(PREFIX) -type l -follow >/dev/null # exits 1 on broken links
dh_compress -i
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