Comment 2 for bug 766534

Glad to see this is actively being worked on.

I use cloudinit & cloud-config to bootstrap puppet in EC2, and this bug completely breaks the automatic bootstrap process for new instances.

Even without the fancy cloud-config/puppet stuff, new maverick instances can't be upgraded. If they are, then dpkg is left in a bad state preventing any other packages from being installed.

Thank you for the urgent response to this critical issue.