After chatting with Colin, it turns out the the "other" man implementation (e.g. as used by Fedora) accepts .so links like this - so our man-db probably should too
** Changed in: module-init-tools Status: New => Won't Fix ** Package changed: module-init-tools (Ubuntu) => man-db (Ubuntu) -- modprobe.conf man page has invalid symlink https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411534 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs