is this a bug? conflict w/initscripts

[Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>]

hello glibc mainainers,

I screwed up badly with aptitude and wiped a good portion of my Sid
system (on powerpc), including libc6.  Now trying to reinstall, and
having a terrible time with a conflict btwn libc6 and initscripts.
Here's the output of aptitude (on the command line):

[00:03:33]root@matts-mac:~$ apt-get install glibc-2.3.2.ds1-11
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Note, selecting libc6 instead of glibc-2.3.2.ds1-11
Suggested packages:
  glibc-doc
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 753 not
upgraded.
2 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/4211kB of archives.
After unpacking 20.5kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 136582 files and directories currently
installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 (using
.../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/etc/default/devpts', which is also in package
initscripts
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  
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Is there anything I can do to fix this problem?  My system is
currently crippled and this problem blocks installation of everything
else!  

thanks for your help,
matt