Oh, maybe the test case is wrong. This SRU is the same fix as was done in Debian's 5.1.1 (present in Xenial) to "not ship broken symlinks".
See https://bugs.debian.org/732272 and comment #2 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #732272 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732272 ** Also affects: giflib (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732272 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1337898 Title: Invalid symlinks for libungif.so and libungif.a To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/giflib/+bug/1337898/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs