Bug#420154: uninstallable: trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/licensecheck', which is also in package devscripts

[Christian Ohm <chr.ohm@gmx.net>]

Package: kdesdk-scripts
Version: 4:3.5.5-3
Severity: normal

As the subject says, "apt-get install kdesdk-scripts" fails with

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  dmalloc kdelibs4-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed
  kdesdk-scripts
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 229 not upgraded.
Need to get 294kB of archives.
After unpacking 1093kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get: 1 http://ftp.ch.debian.org unstable/main kdesdk-scripts 4:3.5.5-3 [294kB]
Fetched 294kB in 4s (64.8kB/s)         
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package kdesdk-scripts.
(Reading database ... 398193 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kdesdk-scripts (from .../kdesdk-scripts_4%3a3.5.5-3_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdesdk-scripts_4%3a3.5.5-3_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/licensecheck', which is also in package devscripts
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kdesdk-scripts_4%3a3.5.5-3_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.19-beyond1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages kdesdk-scripts depends on:
ii  perl                          5.8.8-7    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  python                        2.4.4-2    An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages kdesdk-scripts recommends:
ii  automake [automaken]     1:1.10+nogfdl-1 A tool for generating GNU Standard
ii  automake1.7 [automaken]  1.7.9-9         A tool for generating GNU Standard
ii  automake1.8 [automaken]  1.8.5+nogfdl-2  A tool for generating GNU Standard
ii  automake1.9 [automaken]  1.9.6+nogfdl-3  A tool for generating GNU Standard
ii  cvs                      1:1.12.13-8     Concurrent Versions System
ii  gawk                     1:3.1.5.dfsg-4  GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr

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