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28.0.50; Dired-x: Y makes symlink with error: File is a symlink to a nonexistent target

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From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 41834 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41834: 28.0.50; Dired-x: Y makes symlink with error: File is a symlink to a nonexistent target
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:55:59 +0300

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> [2020-06-13 15:05]:
> > Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 14:57:35 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
> > Cc: 41834 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > 
> > I have noticed that "Y" causes wrong relative symlink, this one here:
> > S lrwxrwxrwx 1   65 13. Jun 14:51 2020-06-13 -> ../../../../../../public_html/louis.club/media/2020/06/2020-06-13
> > 
> > And it should be this one:
> > S lrwxrwxrwx 1   71 13. Jun 14:51 2020-06-13 -> ../../../../../../../../public_html/louis.club/media/2020/06/2020-06-13
> 
> Could it be that you actually used too many ".."s?

I have only pressed Y and the symlink is created in such way that it
does not work.

I would need to edit the symlink to make it work, and then I added few
more dots to make it work to show what it should be.

Jean

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