installs a broken man-page symlink
Bug #473007 reported by
Peter Cordes
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| debhelper (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| man-db (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| module-init-tools (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: module-init-tools
found with cruft(8):
$ find -L $(dpkg -L module-init-tools) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls
19601827 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 31 15:36 /usr/share/
correct link target is modprobe.conf.5.gz
ii module-init-tools 3.10-3 tools for managing Linux kernel modules
| Changed in module-init-tools (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Revision history for this message
| Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in man-db (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
Revision history for this message
| Maarten Bezemer (veger) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in debhelper (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
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I seem to remember that we decided this was a man-db or debhelper problem?
Upstream is shipping the following:
quest module-init-tools% cat modprobe.d.5
.so modprobe.conf.5
According to the Fedora man implementation, that .so link is correct and it's debhelper/man-db getting it wrong.