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FS#79742 - [newsflash] sets wrong symlink in PKGBUILD

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by hansenerd (hansenerd) - Wednesday, 20 September 2023, 13:19 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Wednesday, 20 September 2023, 21:52 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Balló György (City-busz)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

PKGBUILD of newsflash symlinks the launcher in L39, the targets name seems to have changed upstream, leaving the symlink dead

$ pacman -Ql newsflash | grep bin/
newsflash /usr/bin/
newsflash /usr/bin/io.gitlab.news_flash.NewsFlash
newsflash /usr/bin/newsflash

$ ls -al /usr/bin/newsflash
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 29 18:12 /usr/bin/newsflash -> com.gitlab.newsflash

Additional info:
* package version(s): 2.3.1
* config and/or log files etc.
* link to upstream bug report, if any

Steps to reproduce:

* install newsflash packages
* try to run `/usr/bin/newsflash`
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Wednesday, 20 September 2023, 21:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  newsflash 2.3.1-2

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