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Bug 895160

Summary: net-misc/iputils-20221126: QA Notice: Symbolic link [..] points to [..]/tracepath.8 which does not exist
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: MW <spamfilter-1>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: gentoo, jstein
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description MW 2023-02-17 20:44:54 UTC
As the title explains, =net-misc/iputils-20221126 with USE="tracepath" gives a QA Notice:

>>> /usr/bin/tracepath6 -> tracepath
 * QA Notice: Symbolic link /usr/share/man/man8/tracepath6.8 points to /usr/share/man/man8/tracepath.8 which does not exist.

The suspect line (131) in the ebuild exists in version 20211215 and 99999999 as well.
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2023-02-20 18:27:55 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=31dcb27958c21cfb89f1dc3d84fa67861d230d9f

commit 31dcb27958c21cfb89f1dc3d84fa67861d230d9f
Author:     Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2023-02-20 18:23:47 +0000
Commit:     Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2023-02-20 18:27:51 +0000

    net-misc/iputils: simplify manpage handling
    
    Always build manpages from source instead of hacking in prebuilt copies
    from an auxiliary tarball.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/895160
    Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>

 net-misc/iputils/Manifest                |  1 -
 net-misc/iputils/iputils-20221126.ebuild | 63 +++++--------------------------
 net-misc/iputils/iputils-99999999.ebuild | 65 ++++++--------------------------
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)