Bug#274682: libpt-1.7.5 prevents upgrade of libpt-1.6.3 - /usr/lib/libpt.so.1

[james mcguire]

Package: libpt-1.7.5
Version: 1.7.5-1
Severity: normal

james@a4-1800:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libpt-1.6.3
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1075kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 103479 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libpt-1.6.3 1.6.6.4-4 (using 
..../libpt-1.6.3_1.6.6.4-5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libpt-1.6.3 ...
dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpt-1.6.3_1.6.6.4-5_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libpt.so.1', which is also in package 
libpt-1.7.5Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libpt-1.6.3_1.6.6.4-5_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
james@a4-1800:~$

libpt-1.6.3 is currently version 1.6.6.4-4, trying to upgrade to 
1.6.6.4-5.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7final
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages libpt-1.7.5 depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.3.2.ds1-16      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libexpat1              1.95.6-8          XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                1:3.4.1-4sarge1   GCC support library
ii  libldap2               2.1.30-3          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libsasl2               2.1.19-1.1        Authentication abstraction library
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.7-10          Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libssl0.9.7            0.9.7d-5          SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++5             1:3.3.4-6sarge1.2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

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