terminal.app does not install properly if xfce4-terminal is installed

Bug #58783 reported by runokiab
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terminal.app (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: terminal.app

terminal.app does not install properly if xfce4-terminal is installed, because both packages are using /usr/bin/Terminal. Don't know if this is a bug in terminal.app or xfce4-terminal.

sudo aptitude install terminal.app
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  terminal.app
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/108kB of archives. After unpacking 504kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 95534 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking terminal.app (from .../terminal.app_0.9.4+cvs20051125-1.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/terminal.app_0.9.4+cvs20051125-1.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/Terminal', which is also in package xfce4-terminal
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/terminal.app_0.9.4+cvs20051125-1.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnustep:
 gnustep depends on terminal.app; however:
  Package terminal.app is not installed.
dpkg: error processing gnustep (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gnustep

See https://launchpad.net/distros/baltix/+bug/42739 for the opposite way round.

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