I looked a bit more into this issue and planned to forward the issue to Debian, but I discovered that the symlink is only broken in Ubuntu. Comparing the filelist for the package in Debian Sid [1] and Ubuntu Zesty [2], we can see that /usr/share/doc/fig2dev/changelog.gz is included on the Debian side, but is not present when the package is rebuilt on Ubuntu.
I'm going out on a limb here, but it looks like the following line dh_installchangelogs -k CHANGES in the rules file [3] is responsible for creating the symlink. So maybe there's a slight difference in this which is somehow causing this issue. I've taken the liberty of marking this as also affecting debhelper, but feel free to reassign if this is wrong or I'm missing something obvious. [1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/fig2dev/filelist [2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/amd64/fig2dev/filelist [3] https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/f/fig2dev/rules-1%3A3.2.6-3 ** Also affects: debhelper (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fig2dev in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1654703 Title: /usr/share/doc/fig2dev/CHANGES.gz is a broken symlink Status in debhelper package in Ubuntu: New Status in fig2dev package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: nate@minerva:~$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/fig2dev/CHANGES.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 14 12:22 /usr/share/doc/fig2dev/CHANGES.gz -> changelog.gz nate@minerva:~$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/fig2dev/changelog.gz ls: cannot access '/usr/share/doc/fig2dev/changelog.gz': No such file or directory ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: fig2dev 1:3.2.6-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-32.34-generic 4.8.11 Uname: Linux 4.8.0-32-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Jan 6 21:07:13 2017 SourcePackage: fig2dev UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-12-19 (19 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debhelper/+bug/1654703/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
