installs a broken man-page symlink

[Peter Cordes]

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/man/man5/modprobe.d.5 -> ../modprobe.conf.5

correct link target is modprobe.conf.5.gz

ii module-init-tools 3.10-3 tools for managing Linux kernel modules

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

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.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

That's debhelper's fault; man-db supports this .so style as of version 2.5.3.

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

There have been many changes in debhelper since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 473007 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.