kubuntu-firefox-installer includes firefox.desktop which is in the actual firefox package which blocks installation

[GeorgeB]

Binary package hint: kubuntu-firefox-installer

Kubuntu-firefox-installer (in Natty) failes with a message about overwriting '/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop' which is included in both the installer package and the firefox-branding package.

Output of apt-get -f install after the kubuntu-firefox-installer has failed:
george@george-kubuntu-dev:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
. . .
The following extra packages will be installed:
  firefox-branding
The following NEW packages will be installed
  firefox-branding
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/3,256 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,654 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 130299 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking firefox-branding (from .../firefox-branding_4.0~b7+nobinonly-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox-branding_4.0~b7+nobinonly-0ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop', which is also in package kubuntu-firefox-installer 10.10ubuntu4
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox-branding_4.0~b7+nobinonly-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

george@george-kubuntu-dev:~$ apt-cache policy kubuntu-firefox-installer
kubuntu-firefox-installer:
  Installed: 10.10ubuntu4
  Candidate: 10.10ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 10.10ubuntu4 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

george@george-kubuntu-dev:~$ apt-cache policy firefox-branding
firefox-branding:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4.0~b7+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
     4.0~b7+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

firefox-branding needs a Replaces: kubuntu-firefox-installer as seen in 10.10

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 694391, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.