Package: x11-common
Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4
Severity: important

I am running Debian unstable.  When trying to upgrade x11-common from version 
6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 to version
6.9.0.dfsg.1-5 I get an error from apt-get.  Error indicates that
x11-common is attempting to overwrite a file that is also in package
libxft-dev.  apt-get output is shown below.  

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
  System startup links for /etc/init.d/x11-common already exist.
  Setting up X server socket directory /tmp/.X11-unix...done.
  Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/.ICE-unix...done.
  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)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.6
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.

-- debconf information:
  x11-common/experimental_packages:


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