The bug is still there in saucy and linux-doc 3.11.0-15-generic : $ symlinks -r /usr/share/doc/linux-doc/ | grep dangling | wc 155 620 21642
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/661306 Title: dangling symlinks in linux-doc package Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The linux-doc package contains many symlinks that refer to the build process and are not present on an installed system. For example: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 67 Oct 5 04:03 /usr/share/doc/linux- doc/html/audio.xml -> /build/buildd/linux-3.5.0/Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/audio.xml And there are many of them: $ symlinks -r /usr/share/doc/linux-doc/ | grep dangling | wc 151 604 20939 This is with the latest package available in quantal: Package: linux-doc Version: 3.5.0-17.27 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/661306/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp