wrong symlink _gv.i686-linux-gnu.so on 32 bit Ubuntu 16.04

[y-lee]

I noticed I was unable to build the documentation correctly for python-efl on Bodhi linux 4.2. The docs built but without images. The error was eventually tracked down to a broken symlink:

bodhi@bodhi-VirtualBox:/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages$ ls -l *gv*so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jan 5 16:17 _gv.i686-linux-gnu.so -> libgv_python27.i686-linux-gnu.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93880 Jan 5 16:17 libgv_python27.i386-linux-gnu.so

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Bodhi Linux
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

This resulted in me being unable to load the module gv in python:

bodhi@bodhi-VirtualBox:~$ python
Python 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import gv
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gv.py", line 28, in <module>
    _gv = swig_import_helper()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gv.py", line 20, in swig_import_helper
    import _gv
ImportError: No module named _gv

The inability to load module gv in python broke images being built in python-efl. The fix was to restore a proper link:

sudo ln -s libgv_python27.i386-linux-gnu.so _gv.i386-linux-gnu.so

I have documented this problem on Bodhi's forums and while I could fix said deb file and upload it to Bodhis repo I feel it is best to report the issue upstream, hence here. SEE http://forums.bodhilinux.com/index.php?/topic/14275-i386-python-efl-docs-wrong-symlink-gvi686-linux-gnuso/

For the record this seems to be a 386 version of the issue (LP: #1583897)