Comment 113 for bug 1707352

That is right:
 - make libsane1's install script execute a few "ln" commands. Or add a debian/<packagename>.links
 - add a few udev scripts to libsane1's debian directory and a debian/<packagename>.install file that places them at the right places in the filesystem
 - and somehow make ubuntu ship the resulting package instead of the old one. I've never found any documentation on how to actually do this. But I've always read that everyone is invited in fixing bugs in ubuntu packages... ...that means: http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/fixing-a-bug.html

If we change the things that are needed and submit the change to debian - that might fix many upcoming releases of many linux flavours. If the changes are backported to ubuntu afterwards, that is.