Deal better with maintainer script failures

Registered by Michael Vogt

Ubuntu should deal better with maintainer script (postinst, postrm, etc) failures during install/upgrade/remove of packages. There are a lot of situations where a failure is not critical but it still breaks installation/upgrades. This is especially important for complex scenarios like upgrades.

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Michael Vogt
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