Comment 9 for bug 278807

This is incredible. This bug is SIX years old.

And I've just gotten the very same here on Utopic (Final)

From Software Updater:

chdir /var/lib/emacsen-common/state/flavor/installed: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/lib.pl line 27.
dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
chdir /var/lib/emacsen-common/state/flavor/installed: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/lib.pl line 27.
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/cmake-data_2.8.12.2-0ubuntu6_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2

Must really be rocket science to get this bug fixed, otherwise this shouldn't have taken 6 years to last.
My, my ...