Bug#24475: dpkg: Segmentation fault!

[brinkmd@debian.org]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.24

Strange situation here:

Two packages of me contained /man/man1 (this is a bug, okay), glade,
glademm.

I installed glademm with /man/man1 directory. I also installed glade with
/man/man1. Then I upgraded glade to a version without /man/man1.
Because I didn't know that glademm contains the directories, I removed them,
and downgraded to glade with /man/man1 for testing (I intended to upgrade
again, to see if dpkg removes the directories).

See what happened:
flora:/gnu# dpkg -i
/home/brinkmds/debian/packages/glade/glade_0.3.1-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 33858 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace glade 0.3.1-2 (using .../glade/glade_0.3.1-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement glade ...
dpkg: error processing
/home/brinkmds/debian/packages/glade/glade_0.3.1-1_i386.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite /man', which is also in package glademm
Segmentation fault

Thank you,
Marcus

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux flora 2.1.106 #1 SMP Sat Jun 20 23:27:39 CEST 1998 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
hi  libc6           2.0.7pre1-4    The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
hi  libstdc++2.8    2.90.29-0.4    The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
hi  ncurses3.4      1.9.9g-8.5     Video terminal manipulation - shared librari


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