Fixed #20780 -- Get rid of stale symlinks when using collectstatic.

Thanks to John Giannelos for the initial patch.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/staticfiles_tests/tests.py b/tests/staticfiles_tests/tests.py
index 9261503726..95852acd09 100644
--- a/tests/staticfiles_tests/tests.py
+++ b/tests/staticfiles_tests/tests.py
@@ -694,6 +694,15 @@ class TestCollectionLinks(CollectionTestCase, TestDefaults):
         """
         self.assertTrue(os.path.islink(os.path.join(settings.STATIC_ROOT, 'test.txt')))
 
+    def test_broken_symlink(self):
+        """
+        Test broken symlink gets deleted.
+        """
+        path = os.path.join(settings.STATIC_ROOT, 'test.txt')
+        os.unlink(path)
+        self.run_collectstatic()
+        self.assertTrue(os.path.islink(path))
+
 
 class TestServeStatic(StaticFilesTestCase):
     """