Brother printer driver hoses Synaptic

Bug #688723 reported by James Van Damme
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Bug Description

"Unhandlable error": I can't uninstall these printer/fax drivers, and can't do anything with the package manager.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 768, in simulate
    return self._simulate_helper(trans, status_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 938, in _simulate_helper
    return depends, status, self._cache.required_download, \
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 218, in required_download
    pm.get_archives(fetcher, self._list, self._records)
SystemError: E:I wasn't able to locate file for the mfc9840cdwlpr package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.

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