Package: acpi-support
Version: 0.103-2
Severity: grave

lakeview ok % sudo dpkg -i acpi-support{,-base}_0.103-2_a*.deb (Reading database ... 230196 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace acpi-support 0.103-2 (using 
acpi-support_0.103-2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement acpi-support ...
Unpacking acpi-support-base (from acpi-support-base_0.103-2_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing acpi-support-base_0.103-2_all.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/acpi-support/policy-funcs', which is also in 
package acpi-support
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acpi-support:
 acpi-support depends on acpi-support-base; however:
  Package acpi-support-base is not installed.
dpkg: error processing acpi-support (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 acpi-support-base_0.103-2_all.deb
 acpi-support

The file exists in both packages; I have verified this with dpkg-deb -c.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages acpi-support depends on:
pn  acpi-support-base             <none>     (no description available)
ii  acpid                         1.0.6-4    Utilities for using ACPI power man
ii dmidecode 2.9-1 Dump Desktop Management Interface ii finger 0.17-11 user information lookup program
ii  hdparm                        7.7-1      tune hard disk parameters for high
ii  laptop-detect                 0.13.2     attempt to detect a laptop
ii  libc6                         2.7-0exp8  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-24     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  nvclock                       0.8b2-1    Allows you to overclock your nVidi
ii  powermgmt-base                1.29       Common utils and configs for power
ii  radeontool                    1.5-5      utility to control ATI Radeon back
ii  vbetool                       0.7-1.1    run real-mode video BIOS code to a
ii  x11-xserver-utils             7.3+1      X server utilities

acpi-support recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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