Comment 16 for bug 57957

I tend to agree about this problem needing to be fixed sooner rather than later if possible since it essentially breaks apt. I ran into it recently, and there is no easy workaround other than to hack the scripts enough to make apt-get "remove" work as mentioned above.

FWIW, I believe the root of this problem in my case is caused by having an atheros (mad-wifi) based WLAN card in my laptop (see related Bug #92938). Similarly, also see wishlist Bug #99393 talking about player version 1.0.3 rather than the 1.0.2 version we are getting that is both dated and broken.