package dictionaries-common 1.20.2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

[Mindaugas Jakutis]

I got this during upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10:

Setting up dictionaries-common (1.20.2) ...
update-default-wordlist: Question empty but elements installed for class "wordlist"
  dictionaries-common/default-wordlist: return code: "0", value: ""
  Choices: , Manual symlink setting
  shared/packages-wordlist: return code: "10" owners/error: "shared/packages-wordlist doesn't exist"
  Installed elements: american (American English), british (British English)

  Please see "/usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common/README.problems", section
  "Debconf database corruption" for recovery info.

update-default-wordlist: Selected wordlist ""
does not correspond to any installed package in the system
and no alternative wordlist could be selected.
dpkg: error processing dictionaries-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: dictionaries-common 1.20.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-33.48-generic 3.8.13.11
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 30 03:15:02 2013
DuplicateSignature: package:dictionaries-common:1.20.2:ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-20 (101 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: dictionaries-common
Title: package dictionaries-common 1.20.2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-30 (0 days ago)

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