package man-db 2.7.5-1 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned

[Eduard Kharitonov]

package man-db 2.7.5-1 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: man-db 2.7.5-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-13.29-generic 4.4.5
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 9 11:52:39 2016
ErrorMessage: triggers looping, abandoned
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-13 (793 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1
 apt 1.2.6
SourcePackage: man-db
Title: package man-db 2.7.5-1 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-01-11 (65 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

dpkg: cycle found while processing triggers:
 chain of packages whose triggers are or may be responsible:
  bamfdaemon -> bamfdaemon
 packages' pending triggers which are or may be unresolvable:
  software-center: /usr/share/locale-langpack
  man-db: /usr/share/man
  libc-bin: ldconfig
  bamfdaemon: /usr/share/applications
  initramfs-tools: update-initramfs
  libglib2.0-0:amd64: /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
  libglib2.0-0:i386: /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

I think man-db is/was the victim of a dpkg bug here, so reassigning.