/usr/share/doc/ruby1.8/NEWS.gz is in ruby1.8 1.8.7.352-2ubuntu1.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o777.
It is a symlink to /usr/share/doc/ruby1.8/../libruby1.8/NEWS.gz
/usr/share/doc/ruby1.8/../libruby1.8/NEWS.gz