managing toplevel __init__.py files

[Tim Michelsen <timmichelsen@gmx-topmail.de>]

Hello,
i have started to package a series of modules for scipy.
These are put on the namespace as
scikits.timeseries
scikits.statsmodels

etc.

I correctly created backages.

But upon installation I get the following error:

sudo dpkg -i ../python-scikits-statsmodels_0.2.0_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 485269 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python-scikits-statsmodels (from
.../python-scikits-statsmodels_0.2.0_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing ../python-scikits-statsmodels_0.2.0_i386.deb
(--install):
 trying to overwrite
'/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/scikits/__init__.py', which is also in
package python-scikits-timeseries 0.91.3-2~ppa5
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ../python-scikits-statsmodels_0.2.0_i386.deb


How can I prevent that there is a conflict on the scikits/__init__.py
file by individual packages?

Thanks in advance,
Timmie