Bug#45105: dpkg: Overwrite error during unpacking, dpkg-buildpackage.1.gz

[smayer@us.oracle.com]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.6
Severity: important

During unpack, the following error is givin:

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-buildpackage.1.gz', which is also
 in package dpkg-dev
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb


-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux smayer-pc 2.2.12 #1 Fri Aug 27 16:42:05 PDT 1999 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.2-1        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libncurses4     4.2-3.2        Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  libstdc++2.9-gl 2.91.66-2      The GNU stdc++ library (EGCS version)