dictionaries-common fails to upgrade during dist-upgrade from jaunty to karmic Mythbuntu

[Ken]

Binary package hint: dictionaries-common

This occurs during a distro upgrade from jaunty to karmic. Note this is mythbuntu although I doubt that has anything to do with it. It's a fairly vanilla mythbuntu install (fresh from jaunty) with no notable conf file customizations (certainly nothing to do with dictionaries-common).

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 24 20:33:02 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: dictionaries-common 1.2.1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-13.45-generic
SourcePackage: dictionaries-common
Title: package dictionaries-common 1.2.1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

[era (era)]

Quoting the attached VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz:
> Setting up dictionaries-common (1.2.1ubuntu1) ...
> When trying to make the default link to a wordlist
> the file to link [/usr/share/dict/american-english] was not found. Please report this as a bug to the
> maintainer of the wordlist package you tried to
> select.
> In the meantime select other default value for your wordlist.

I'm not sure how this should be handled. Is it a bug in dictionaries-common that this happens when you dist-upgrade? Perhaps there is a dependency problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[era (era)]

Belatedly reassigning to wamerican, the package of /usr/share/dict/american-english