/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/germinate-2.8.egg-info/dependency_links.txt is in python-germinate 2.8.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o777.
It is a symlink to /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/germinate-2.8.egg-info/../../../../share/pyshared/germinate-2.8.egg-info/dependency_links.txt