Public bug reported:

apt-get upgrade fails:

sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
  wpasupplicant
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/987 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,096 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 263328 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../wpasupplicant_2.4-0ubuntu6.2_i386.deb ...
Unpacking wpasupplicant (2.4-0ubuntu6.2) over (2.4-0ubuntu6) ...

dpkg: error processing archive 
/var/cache/apt/archives/wpasupplicant_2.4-0ubuntu6.2_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/etc/network', which is also in package resolvconf 
1.78ubuntu4

Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3.3) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/wpasupplicant_2.4-0ubuntu6.2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


System Information:

Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release:        16.04

apt-cache policy wpasupplicant
wpasupplicant:
  Installed: 2.4-0ubuntu6
  Candidate: 2.4-0ubuntu6.2
  Version table:
     2.4-0ubuntu6.2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 
Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main i386 Packages
 *** 2.4-0ubuntu6 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy resolvconf
resolvconf:
  Installed: 1.78ubuntu4
  Candidate: 1.78ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 1.78ubuntu4 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.78ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages

** Affects: wpa (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Error installing Xenial Update of wpasupplicant: Conflict with
  resolvconf

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