installation fails due to " unable to make backup symlink for './usr/bin/captoinfo': No such file or directory"

[Karl-Philipp Richter]

installation of `ncurses-bin` fails due to `installation fails due to " unable to make backup symlink for './usr/bin/captoinfo': No such file or directory"`

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: ncurses-bin 5.9+20150516-2ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 4.2.5-040205-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Dec 6 08:38:53 2015
Dependencies:
 gcc-5-base 5.2.1-22ubuntu2
 libc6 2.21-0ubuntu4
 libgcc1 1:5.2.1-22ubuntu2
 libtinfo5 5.9+20150516-2ubuntu1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-20 (229 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.2)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ncurses
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-26 (40 days ago)