Comment 5 for bug 1004397

Just ran in to this while trying to do an in-place upgrade from Mint 12 to 13. I think the upgrade worked except for this package. When I tried to let the update manager upgrade the package, it detected brokenness and did a complete system rebuild for 4+ hours which ended in the same error.

For giggles I tried creating the file with touch but after running apt-get upgrade it was gone again.