Not quite. What dpkg is saying here (slightly misleading terminology arising from internal status names aside) is "you asked me to configure a package that's already configured, and I can't do that". This generally means that apt has failed to accurately predict what state it has put dpkg into, and as far as I know this kind of thing is more or less always an apt bug, so reassigning there.
** Package changed: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) => apt (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1068996 Title: Kubuntu upgrade to 12.10 failed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1068996/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs