Comment 4 for bug 1966159

fix by setting the following permissions
chmod 0775 /usr/share/doc/linux-libc-dev/copyright.dpkg-new

Then Run
  sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  librest-1.0-0 linux-headers-generic ubuntu-drivers-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  linux-libc-dev
1 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 3 not to upgrade.
9 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/1,370 kB of archives.
After this operation, 5,120 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 391913 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-libc-dev_5.19.0-38.39_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-libc-dev:amd64 (5.19.0-38.39) over (5.19.0-35.36) ...
Setting up qemu-system-common (1:7.0+dfsg-7ubuntu2.2) ...
Setting up libsnmp-base (5.9.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1.4) ...
Setting up linux-libc-dev:amd64 (5.19.0-38.39) ...
Setting up libsnmp40:amd64 (5.9.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1.4) ...
Setting up qemu-system-data (1:7.0+dfsg-7ubuntu2.2) ...
Setting up printer-driver-splix (2.0.0+svn315-7fakesync1ubuntu0.22.10.1) ...
Setting up qemu-utils (1:7.0+dfsg-7ubuntu2.2) ...
Setting up qemu-block-extra (1:7.0+dfsg-7ubuntu2.2) ...
Setting up qemu-system-x86 (1:7.0+dfsg-7ubuntu2.2) ...
Setting up qemu-system-gui (1:7.0+dfsg-7ubuntu2.2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for cups (2.4.2-1ubuntu2) ...
Updating PPD files for splix ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.36-0ubuntu4) ...
rob@dsk-nix:/usr/share/doc/linux-libc-dev$ ls -lsa
total 220
  0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 50 Mar 23 12:45 .
140 drwxr-xr-x 2655 root root 98304 Mar 12 16:05 ..
 76 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75903 Mar 17 17:12 changelog.Debian.gz
  4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1292 Mar 17 17:12 copyright