Bug#179921: xlibs: Overwrites /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults

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Package: xlibs
Version: 4.2.1-5
Severity: important

Thanks for maintaining Debian's xlibs package. 

I use it.

When I tried to upgrade xlibs to version 4.2.1-5 with "apt-get install",
it reported

    Unpacking replacement xlibs ...
    dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.2.1-5_i386.deb (--unpack):
     trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package groff
    [...]
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.2.1-5_i386.deb

I'm using version 1.10-3 of groff. 

The xosview package has the same conflict.

I seem to have worked around the problem with

    $ dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.2.1-5_i386.deb

Thanks,
Kingsley

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux debian1.loaner.com 2.4.19-aa1 #1 Sat Nov 2 20:42:05 PST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Versions of the packages xlibs depends on:
ii  libc6          2.3.1-10       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libfreetype6   2.1.3-8        FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii  xfree86-common 4.2.1-3        X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure
ii  xlibs          4.1.0-17       X Window System client libraries