Package: diffutils
Version: 1:2.8.1-16
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 7.4

diffutils installation fails when package diff is installed, probably
due to a missing Conflicts:

Selecting previously deselected package diffutils.
(Reading database ... 401114 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking diffutils (from .../diffutils_1%3a2.8.1-16_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/diffutils_1%3a2.8.1-16_amd64.deb 
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/diff', which is also in package diff
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/diffutils_1%3a2.8.1-16_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-20080922 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages diffutils depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

diffutils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages diffutils suggests:
pn  diffutils-doc                 <none>     (no description available)



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