Error on upgrade..............

[Charlie <ariestao@ipstarmail.com.au>]

Debian Jessie, tried to upgrade today and received this message:

Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
Setting up libdb5.3:i386 (5.3.28-7~deb8u1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-13) ...
(Reading database ... 240422 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libdb5.3-java_5.3.28-7~deb8u1_all.deb ...
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute path
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb5.3-java_5.3.28-7~deb8u1_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute path
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Preparing to unpack .../libgpg-error0_1.17-3_i386.deb ...
Unpacking libgpg-error0:i386 (1.17-3) over (1.16-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb5.3-java_5.3.28-7~deb8u1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

What do I have to delete to get this to go away?

TIA
Charlie