sysv-rc-conf breaks sysvinit

[Greg Trounson <gregt@maths.otago.ac.nz>]

Hi,

I recently tried to apt-get install sysv-rc-conf, since rcconf seems to 
have dropped off the repos, and got this:

Unpacking sysv-rc (from .../sysv-rc_2.86-5_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/sysv-rc_2.86-5_all.deb 
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/etc/init.d/rc', which is also in package sysvinit

Does sysv-rc replace sysvinit or something?  Is it safe to overwrite 
this file with the version distributed by sysv-rc, or is this a 
temporary fix?

thanks,
Greg