Bug#268816: installation: apt-get fails for gcc-3.3 (trying to overwrite .../gcc-3.3-base/changelog.Debian.gz)

[Geert Vantienen <Geert.Vantienen@skynet.be>]

Package: installation
Severity: important


# apt-get install gcc-3.3-base gcc-3.3
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
gcc-3.3-base is already the newest version.
Suggested packages:
  gcc-3.3-doc
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    gcc-3.3
    0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 29 not upgraded.
    2 not fully installed or removed.
    Need to get 0B/1608kB of archives.
    After unpacking 4223kB of additional disk space will be used.
    (Reading database ... 110629 files and directories currently
    installed.)
    Unpacking gcc-3.3 (from .../gcc-3.3_1%3a3.3.4-6sarge1.1_i386.deb)
    ...
    dpkg: error processing
    /var/cache/apt/archives/gcc-3.3_1%3a3.3.4-6sarge1.1_i386.deb
    (--unpack):
     trying to overwrite
     `/usr/share/doc/gcc-3.3-base/changelog.Debian.gz', which is also in
     package gcc-3.3-base
     dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
     Errors were encountered while processing:
      /var/cache/apt/archives/gcc-3.3_1%3a3.3.4-6sarge1.1_i386.deb
      E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
      
Also running "apt-get -f install" fails (same problem)
How can this be solved ?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C