Package: approx Version: 5.10-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch script /etc/cron.weekly/approx does not work if the content of the variable cache is a symlink.
I would like to suggest changing the two calls to 'find' as in the example attached below. Cheers, Christian -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.9 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-0.bpo.5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages approx depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9.2~deb10u1 ii curl 7.64.0-4+deb10u2 ii init-system-helpers 1.56+nmu1 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libpcre3 2:8.39-12 ii rsyslog [system-log-daemon] 8.1901.0-1 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1 approx recommends no packages. Versions of packages approx suggests: pn libconfig-model-approx-perl <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/cron.weekly/approx changed: cache=/var/cache/approx max_age=2000 find -L $cache -type f -mtime +$max_age -delete -print find -L $cache -empty -delete -- no debconf information
