As for last night, trying to install testing or unstable powerpc-utils package on top of a woody freshly updated system still shows the same conflict error reported for about 10 days. Ethan's workaround of using sid (unstable) doesn't work and causes the same problem (conflict happens with '/usr/share/man/man8/clock.8.gz'.)
Because of this error, doing a dselect upgrade to woody on top of a potato install is just a plain nightmare. LdS