Summary: This does not appear to be a bug with the Ubuntu kodi package,
but an incompatibility with a package from another source.

>From what I can see, the new version of the kodi package did not come
from Ubuntu repositories [1]. When installing newer versions of packages
from other sources, you may have some additional work to do to keep the
system in a consistent state. Often, new major versions of a package
will include refactoring of files between packages, or this package
(being from another source) simply packages kodi in a completely
different manner than the Ubuntu build packages.

There are a couple of potential solutions to this:

1. Stick with the version provided in the Ubuntu repositories (this version 
will not change, so you'll likely be missing additional features due to it 
being an older version).
2. Completely purge all existing kodi packages first, then re-install the 
packages from the 3rd party source. Don't assume an upgrade will work. The 
folks who are providing this package might want to consider documenting how 
best to install it.

[1] In the attached DpkgTerminalLog.txt I see this "Unpacking kodi
(2:16.1~git20160425.1001-final-0xenial) over (15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1) ..."
and "2:16.1~git20160425.1001-final-0xenial" is not a version string from
Ubuntu repositories.

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Title:
  package kodi (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to
  overwrite '/usr/share/xsessions/kodi.desktop', which is also in
  package kodi-data 15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1

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