libgvc6-config-update crashes with word unexpected

[nanu vielleicht]

Description: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Release: 16.04

apt-cache policy libgvc6:armhf
libgvc6:armhf:
  Installed: 2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1
  Candidate: 2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1 500
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-updates/main armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I am trying to install libmagic++-dev:armhf
to crosscompile app for ubuntu touch and I ran into the following issue while installing the package via apt

Setting up libgvc6:armhf (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ...
/usr/sbin/libgvc6-config-update: 1: /usr/sbin/libgvc6-config-update: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
dpkg: error processing package libgvc6:armhf (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu10) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libgvc6:armhf

Further information:

# bash /usr/sbin/libgvc6-config-update
/usr/sbin/libgvc6-config-update: /usr/sbin/libgvc6-config-update: cannot execute binary file

# sh /usr/sbin/libgvc6-config-update
/usr/sbin/libgvc6-config-update: 1: /usr/sbin/libgvc6-config-update: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")