perl-doc package bug?

[Jason Pepas <j.pepas@mail.utexas.edu>]

hello,

I think there might be a bug with the perl-doc package in the testing branch.

(pts/4)root@marsala:/var/cache/apt/archives$ apt-get install perl-doc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  perl-doc 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 233  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3886kB of archives. After unpacking 7516kB will be used.
(Reading database ... 111847 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking perl-doc (from .../perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb) ...
Leaving `diversion of /usr/bin/perldoc to /usr/bin/perldoc.stub by perl-doc'
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb 
(--unpac
k):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/xsubpp.1.gz', which is also in 
package
 perl
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

(pts/4)root@marsala:/var/cache/apt/archives$ dpkg -i --force-overwrite 
perl-doc_
5.6.1-7_all.deb 
(Reading database ... 111847 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking perl-doc (from perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb) ...
Leaving `diversion of /usr/bin/perldoc to /usr/bin/perldoc.stub by perl-doc'
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/xsubpp.1.gz', which is also in 
package
 perl
 Setting up perl-doc (5.6.1-7) ...
 
 (pts/4)root@marsala:/var/cache/apt/archives$ dpkg -l | grep perl
 ii  libft-perl     1.2-13.1       Perl module for the FreeType library
 ii  libperl5.6     5.6.1-7        Shared Perl library.
 ii  libperl5.8     5.8.0-14       Shared Perl library.
 ii  libsgmls-perl  1.03ii-23      Perl modules for processing SGML parser 
outp
 ii  perl           5.8.0-15       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and 
Report
 ii  perl-base      5.8.0-15       The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
 ii  perl-doc       5.6.1-7        Perl documentation.
 ii  perl-modules   5.8.0-15       Core Perl modules.
 ii  perl-tk        800.024-1.1    Perl module providing the Tk graphics 
librar
 
-jason