package videolan-doc 20070626-1 failed to install/upgrade: package videolan-doc is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `half-installed')

[dave fennell]

error reported at startup

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: videolan-doc 20070626-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 9 06:02:24 2013
Dependencies:

DuplicateSignature: package:videolan-doc:20070626-1:package videolan-doc is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `half-installed')
ErrorMessage: package videolan-doc is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `half-installed')
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: videolan-doc
Title: package videolan-doc 20070626-1 failed to install/upgrade: package videolan-doc is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `half-installed')
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-26 (14 days ago)