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Dired move file breaks relative symlinks

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Q <qiang.fang <at> zoho.com.cn>
Cc: 34092 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34092: Dired move file breaks relative symlinks
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 14:06:37 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> I'm unable to reproduce this in Emacs 29.  I did:
>
> touch file
> ln -s file symfile
>
> And then moved the file and the relative symlink with `R' in Dired, and
> they were moved as expected (i.e., still relative).
>
> Do you have a recipe for the problem you were seeing, or has this been
> fixed in the years since it was reported?

More information was requested, but no response was given within a
month, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
please respond to this email and we'll reopen the bug report.

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