Comment 80 for bug 192992

hyperair@Hyperair-PC:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  bzr python-apt update-manager update-manager-core
4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/5523kB of archives.
After this operation, 434kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 320617 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python-apt 0.7.4ubuntu4 (using .../python-apt_0.7.4ubuntu5_i386.deb) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1593, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1587, in main
    rv = action.run(global_options)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1075, in run
    requested = pyversions.requested_versions_for_runtime(version_field, version_only=True)
  File "/usr/share/pycentral-data/pyversions.py", line 172, in requested_versions_for_runtime
    vinfo = parse_versions(vstring)
  File "/usr/share/pycentral-data/pyversions.py", line 58, in parse_versions
    raise ValueError, 'error parsing Python-Version attribute'
ValueError: error parsing Python-Version attribute
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python-apt_0.7.4ubuntu5_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Preparing to replace update-manager 1:0.87.6 (using .../update-manager_1%3a0.87.8_all.deb) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1593, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1587, in main
    rv = action.run(global_options)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1075, in run
    requested = pyversions.requested_versions_for_runtime(version_field, version_only=True)
  File "/usr/share/pycentral-data/pyversions.py", line 172, in requested_versions_for_runtime
    vinfo = parse_versions(vstring)
  File "/usr/share/pycentral-data/pyversions.py", line 58, in parse_versions
    raise ValueError, 'error parsing Python-Version attribute'
ValueError: error parsing Python-Version attribute
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/update-manager_1%3a0.87.8_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Preparing to replace update-manager-core 1:0.87.6 (using .../update-manager-core_1%3a0.87.8_i386.deb) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1593, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1587, in main
    rv = action.run(global_options)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1075, in run
    requested = pyversions.requested_versions_for_runtime(version_field, version_only=True)
  File "/usr/share/pycentral-data/pyversions.py", line 172, in requested_versions_for_runtime
    vinfo = parse_versions(vstring)
  File "/usr/share/pycentral-data/pyversions.py", line 58, in parse_versions
    raise ValueError, 'error parsing Python-Version attribute'
ValueError: error parsing Python-Version attribute
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/update-manager-core_1%3a0.87.8_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Preparing to replace bzr 1.0-1 (using .../bzr_1.1~rc1-1_i386.deb) ...
Ignoring nonregistered document `bzr'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1593, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1587, in main
    rv = action.run(global_options)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1075, in run
    requested = pyversions.requested_versions_for_runtime(version_field, version_only=True)
  File "/usr/share/pycentral-data/pyversions.py", line 172, in requested_versions_for_runtime
    vinfo = parse_versions(vstring)
  File "/usr/share/pycentral-data/pyversions.py", line 58, in parse_versions
    raise ValueError, 'error parsing Python-Version attribute'
ValueError: error parsing Python-Version attribute
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bzr_1.1~rc1-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/python-apt_0.7.4ubuntu5_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/update-manager_1%3a0.87.8_all.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/update-manager-core_1%3a0.87.8_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/bzr_1.1~rc1-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Affected packages on my side include python-apt, update-manager, update-manager-core, bzr. The packages mentioned should be uploaded to the Ubuntu repository shouldn't they? Instead of us getting the debs online from the tarball link above. I'm confirming this, as it hasn't been fixed yet.