That's just a minor cosmetic issue IMO. It does not affect the functionality at all. There's just a mismatch between what apt thought dpkg would do and what dpkg actually did, because dpkg took some shortcuts.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1647638 Title: W: APT had planned for dpkg to do more than it reported back Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I noticed that base-files was not completely installed and meant to fix it with "sudo apt-get install --reinstall base-files". This resulted in the following output. $ LANG=C sudo apt-get install --reinstall base-files Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-4.9.0-4 linux-headers-4.9.0-4-generic linux-image-4.9.0-4-generic linux-image-extra-4.9.0-4-generic Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/56,9 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 598721 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../base-files_9.6ubuntu8_amd64.deb ... Unpacking base-files (9.6ubuntu8) over (9.6ubuntu8) ... Setting up base-files (9.6ubuntu8) ... Processing triggers for install-info (6.3.0.dfsg.1-1) ... Processing triggers for cracklib-runtime (2.9.2-3) ... Processing triggers for plymouth-theme-ubuntu-gnome-text (16.10.5) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-2) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.125ubuntu8) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-8-generic W: APT had planned for dpkg to do more than it reported back (4 vs 6). Affected packages: base-files:amd64 $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu Zesty Zapus (development branch) Release: 17.04 Codename: zesty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1647638/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp