package acroread 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in package acroread-debian-files

Bug #360742 reported by sblatt
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Binary package hint: acroread

sblatt@homeworld:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  acroread
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
7 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/63.4MB of archives.
After this operation, 81.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 255862 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace acroread 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2 (using .../acroread_9.1.0-7jaunty1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement acroread ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread_9.1.0-7jaunty1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in package acroread-debian-files
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread_9.1.0-7jaunty1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

sblatt@homeworld:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

sblatt@homeworld:~$ apt-cache policy acroread
acroread:
  Installed: 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2
  Candidate: 9.1.0-7jaunty1
  Version table:
     9.1.0-7jaunty1 0
        500 http://archive.canonical.com jaunty/partner Packages
 *** 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in package acroread-debian-files
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: acroread 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2
SourcePackage: acroread
Title: package acroread 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in package acroread-debian-files
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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