package gnome-menus 3.13.3-6ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned

[Clarke Davis]

Upgrading from Ubuntu 15.10 to 16.04.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gnome-menus 3.13.3-6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-lowlatency 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 25 22:15:29 2016
Dependencies:

ErrorMessage: triggers looping, abandoned
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-27 (486 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1
 apt 1.2.10ubuntu1
SourcePackage: gnome-menus
Title: package gnome-menus 3.13.3-6ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-26 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[JonH (jon-heisel)]

Upgrading from Ubuntu 15.01 to 16.04 saw this bug but upgrade continued to end, but aborted after installing packages, but before clean-up. Installer indicated that the system was not upgraded, but after a reboot the system reported itself to be 16.04. Did apt-get autoclean that cleaned up a lot of unused packages. Then did "sudo apt-get install gnome-menus --reinstall" and got the following result:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/23.7 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 240745 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gnome-menus_3.13.3-6ubuntu3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) over (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Setting up gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...

It looks to me like there was not a problem to begin with?