Root cause of failed dist-upgrade was that the file

/var/lib/dpkg/info/libedataserver1.2-4.postrm

contained garbage and was corrupted. Clearing out this file, together
with a bunch of 'apt-get -f install' and 'dpkg --configure -a'
eventually got things back on track and got the upgrade completed.

It was highly non-obvious to discover that the above was the problem, it
would be nice if apt/dpkg could have somehow automatically handled this,
or zeroed in on this as the root cause.

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package update-manager 1:0.87.30 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: 
SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error 
code (1)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/326019
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