Bug#358370: x11-common: Error while upgrading to version 6.9.0.dfsg.1-5

[Rick Friedman <rickfriedman@verizon.net>]

Package: x11-common
Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Running apt-get install x11-common (using a SID repository) results in
the following output:

Preparing to replace x11-common 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 (using
.../x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement x11-common ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/include/X11', which is also in package
 libxft-dev

Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb
 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The new version does not get installed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages x11-common depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.72     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.15.3     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  lsb-base                      3.0-16     Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip

x11-common recommends no packages.

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