SSH upgrade problem

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

I upgraded a machine from sarge to etch and the process broke over ssh :(

Here's the log:

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 100606 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking openssh-client (from .../openssh-client_1%3a4.3p2-7_i386.deb) ...
Transferring ownership of conffile /etc/ssh/moduli ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/openssh-client_1%3a4.3p2-7_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/etc/ssh/moduli', which is also in package ssh
Aborting ownership transfer of conffile /etc/ssh/moduli ...
Unpacking openssh-server (from .../openssh-server_1%3a4.3p2-7_i386.deb) ...
Transferring ownership of conffile /etc/default/ssh ...
Transferring ownership of conffile /etc/init.d/ssh ...
Transferring ownership of conffile /etc/pam.d/ssh ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/openssh-server_1%3a4.3p2-7_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/etc/init.d/ssh', which is also in package ssh
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Aborting ownership transfer of conffile /etc/default/ssh ...
Aborting ownership transfer of conffile /etc/init.d/ssh ...
Aborting ownership transfer of conffile /etc/pam.d/ssh ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/openssh-client_1%3a4.3p2-7_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/openssh-server_1%3a4.3p2-7_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Only

    DPkg::Options {"--force-overwrite";}

in /etc/apt/apt.conf (or equivalent) helped.

Since I used apt-get and not aptitude and cannot repeat the process
since the machine is upgraded, I'm not sure this is an issue.  It
might be that aptitude can cope with this better.  So this is FYI.
I can open a bug report if you like.

Regards,

	Joey

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