Comment 11 for bug 1916651

I also tried reinstalling the package after having already installed it per the test case.

bdmurray@clean-groovy-amd64:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall base-passwd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-5.8.0-25 linux-headers-5.8.0-25-generic linux-image-5.8.0-25-generic linux-modules-5.8.0-25-generic
  linux-modules-extra-5.8.0-25-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1215 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/46.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 229477 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../base-passwd_3.5.49ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking base-passwd (3.5.49ubuntu1) over (3.5.49ubuntu1) ...
Setting up base-passwd (3.5.49ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.3-2) ...