package python-serial 2.3-1 failed to install/upgrade:

[Garen]

After running do-release-upgrade in 9.04 to upgrade to 9.10, there is an error with instructions to finish filing this as a bug manually:

Errors were encountered while processing:
 python-serial
Exception during pm.DoInstall(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 10 14:38:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: python-serial 2.3-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-16.55-generic
SourcePackage: pyserial
Title: package python-serial 2.3-1 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-16-generic i686

[Garen (garenp)]

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Setting up python-serial (2.3-1) ...
pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: Not overwriting local files:
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/__init__.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialjava.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialposix.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialutil.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialwin32.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/sermsdos.py not found.
pycentral pkginstall: Not overwriting local files:
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/__init__.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialjava.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialposix.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialutil.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialwin32.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/sermsdos.py not found.
dpkg: error processing python-serial (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 python-serial

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[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 481276, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.