[Bug 1654703] Re: /usr/share/doc/fig2dev/CHANGES.gz is a broken symlink

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

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

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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 at 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 at 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)

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