Since reporting this bug TWO YEARS ago (2014-12-01), my system has moved
on to

DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04 LTS"

With the current package versions installed for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial

graphviz           2.38.0-12ubuntu2
graphviz-doc       2.38.0-12ubuntu2
libgraphviz-dev    2.38.0-12ubuntu2

there are, in /usr/lib/graphviz, the two dangling symbolic links

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     24 2016-03-13 23:30 libgvplugin_gdk.so -> 
libgvplugin_gdk.so.6.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     24 2016-03-13 23:30 libgvplugin_gtk.so -> 
libgvplugin_gtk.so.6.0.0

After downloading all of the required "proposed" new packages and

Setting up libcdt5 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up libcgraph6 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up libgvpr2 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up libpathplan4 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up libxdot4 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up libgvc6 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up graphviz (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up libgvc6-plugins-gtk (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up libgraphviz-dev (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...

the symbolic links no longer dangle because the gdk and gtk plugin
shared library files are present.

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     24 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_gdk.so -> 
libgvplugin_gdk.so.6.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     24 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_gdk.so.6 -> 
libgvplugin_gdk.so.6.0.0
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  10100 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_gdk.so.6.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     24 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_gtk.so -> 
libgvplugin_gtk.so.6.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     24 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_gtk.so.6 -> 
libgvplugin_gtk.so.6.0.0
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  30636 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_gtk.so.6.0.0

Thank you for finally fixing this problem and thank you to Jeremy for
all his work in maintaining and packaging this and other packages.

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  libgraphviz-dev: dangling symbolic links for missing files
  libgvplugin_gdk.so and libgvplugin_gtk.so

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