[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#469286: libarpack2-dev: Package is uninstallable due to a file which is also in libarpack2

[David Ham]

Package: libarpack2-dev
Version: 2.1+parpack96-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Attempting to install this package results in the following error:
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libarpack2-dev_2.1+parpack96-3_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite
 `/usr/share/doc/libarpack2/ARPACK_License_Question.eml.gz', which is
 also in package libarpack2
 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libarpack2-dev_2.1+parpack96-3_amd64.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Since libarpack2-dev depends on libarpack2, this makes this package
uninistallable.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libarpack2-dev depends on:
ii  libarpack2               2.1+parpack96-3 Fortran77 subroutines to solve lar
ii  libblas-dev              1.2-1.5         Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  liblapack-dev            3.1.1-0.4       library of linear algebra routines
ii  libmpich1.0-dev          1.2.7-7         mpich static libraries and develop

libarpack2-dev recommends no packages.