But when did you install the other packages? I suspect that you did so when upgrading to 17.10, where fonts-indic was added to ubuntu-desktop. In that case you never had the Xenial version of those packages which may explain why you didn't stumble upon the upgrade issue for those.
Please see the attachment, which shows the issue for fonts-beng-extra. ** Attachment added: "example-issue_fonts-beng-extra.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-beng-extra/+bug/1701047/+attachment/5149929/+files/example-issue_fonts-beng-extra.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to fonts-guru-extra in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1701047 Title: Renaming of conf file fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-beng-extra/+bug/1701047/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs