Failed to upgrade german and english language packages

Bug #804543 reported by Michael Staengl
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #804449: overwrite file in other debs. Edit Remove
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language-pack-gnome-de (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I am using 11.10 Oneiric Development Branch
This was happed to me during the regular updating process.
Here the summary:
package language-pack-gnome-de 1:11.10 20110627 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale-langpack/de/LC_MESSAGES/indicator-sound.mo', which is also in package language-pack-de 1:11.10 20110630

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: language-pack-gnome-de 1:11.10+20110627
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-2.3-generic 3.0.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.0-2-generic i686
AptOrdering:
 language-pack-gnome-de: Install
 language-pack-gnome-de: Configure
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jul 1 18:32:29 2011
DpkgTerminalLog:
 Preparing to replace language-pack-gnome-de 1:11.10+20110627 (using .../language-pack-gnome-de_1%3a11.10+20110630_all.deb) ...
 Unpacking replacement language-pack-gnome-de ...
 Replacing files in old package language-pack-gnome-de-base ...
 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-gnome-de_1%3a11.10+20110630_all.deb (--unpack):
  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale-langpack/de/LC_MESSAGES/indicator-sound.mo', which is also in package language-pack-de 1:11.10+20110630
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale-langpack/de/LC_MESSAGES/indicator-sound.mo', which is also in package language-pack-de 1:11.10+20110630
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: language-pack-gnome-de
Title: package language-pack-gnome-de 1:11.10+20110627 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale-langpack/de/LC_MESSAGES/indicator-sound.mo', which is also in package language-pack-de 1:11.10+20110630
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-26 (4 days ago)

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Michael Staengl (mistang) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in language-pack-gnome-de (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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