libavcodec-extra causes other packages' changelog to go missing

[Reuben Thomas]

I have installed libavcodec-extra-53. This means that libavcodec53 is not installed. However, libav-tools is installed, and libav-tools has a symlink from its changelog.Debian.gz to that of libavcodec53:

$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/libav-tools/changelog.Debian.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Jan 24 14:51 /usr/share/doc/libav-tools/changelog.Debian.gz -> ../libavcodec53/changelog.Debian.gz

Hence, I cannot currently read that changelog.

If there's no standard solution to coping with this situation, it seems the easy thing to do is to duplicate changelog.Debian.gz in all those libav* packages that do *not* conflict with libav*extra* packages. On my system, this includes at least libav-tools, libavdevice53, libavfilter2, libavformat53.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: libavcodec-extra-53 6:0.8.5ubuntu0.12.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-22.34-generic 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 28 20:12:04 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-05-24 (615 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: libav-extra
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-19 (100 days ago)