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Broken libxft-dev package



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Running testing/unstable and recently did a apt-get update/upgrade.
Updated a whole bunch of X packages.  However the libxft-dev (2.1.2-6)
package won't install:

vodka:~# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libxft-dev
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    libxft-dev
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded
Need to get 0B/60.2kB of archives.
After unpacking 4096B disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
(Reading database ... 105242 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libxft-dev 2.1.2-5 (using .../libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb) ...
diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev
Removing `diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev'
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h' with
  different file `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h', not allowed
  dpkg: error processing
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
   subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
   Errors were encountered while processing:
    /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Thanks,
Aaron

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