Re: [Docutils-develop] [docutils:bugs] Re: #450 0.18: New HTML markup for footnotes is difficult to stylise

[Adam T. <aat...@ou...>]

>>> due to a broken link to minimal.css.

>> This is one of the problems I had during the reposurgeon conversion --
>> these four CSS files in `input/` seem to have broken symlinks in the
>> SVN index or some other oddity going on.

> It should work in a repository checkout, though.
> Please tell whether this is the case.

Using a fresh checkout:

```ps1con
PS S:\Development\docutils_svn_test> svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/docutils/code/trunk .
Checked out revision 9063.
PS S:\Development\docutils_svn_test> cd .\docutils\test\functional\input\data
PS S:\Development\docutils_svn_test\docutils\test\functional\input\data> dir | findstr /i css
-a---          07/06/2022    13:49             57 html4css1.css
-a---          07/06/2022    13:49             57 math.css
-a---          07/06/2022    13:49             60 minimal.css
-a---          07/06/2022    13:49             58 plain.css
-a---          07/06/2022    13:49             63 responsive.css
PS S:\Development\docutils_svn_test\docutils\test\functional\input\data> Get-ChildItem "*.css" | ?{$_.Attributes} | select FullName,ReparsePoint

FullName                                                                            ReparsePoint
--------                                                                            ------------
S:\Development\docutils_svn_test\docutils\test\functional\input\data\html4css1.css
S:\Development\docutils_svn_test\docutils\test\functional\input\data\math.css
S:\Development\docutils_svn_test\docutils\test\functional\input\data\minimal.css
S:\Development\docutils_svn_test\docutils\test\functional\input\data\plain.css
S:\Development\docutils_svn_test\docutils\test\functional\input\data\responsive.css
```

The files exist on disk, but are not valid links in Windows.

Trying again on WSL:

```shell
/mnt/s/Development/docutils_svn_wsl$ svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/docutils/code/trunk .
Checked out revision 9063.
/mnt/s/Development/docutils_svn_wsl$ cd ./docutils/test/functional/input/data
/mnt/s/Development/docutils_svn_wsl/docutils/test/functional/input/data$ find . -name "*.css"
./html4css1.css
./math.css
./minimal.css
./plain.css
./responsive.css
/mnt/s/Development/docutils_svn_wsl/docutils/test/functional/input/data$ [ -L minimal.css ] && [ -e minimal.css ] || exit 1
(base) adam@Gimbals:/mnt/s/Development/docutils_svn_wsl/docutils/test/functional/input/data$
```

So perhaps this is just a Windows issue -- but if the web server has disabled symlinks, then it would also report errors. Perhaps we should make it a carbon copy rather than a symlink, and add a test that the two files are identical?

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