package gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.1.4-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/status/keyboard-brightness-symbolic.svg', which is also in package gnome-power-manager 3.1.3-0ubuntu2

Bug #868086 reported by Matt Gerrish
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

ocurred during update

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.1.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 5 05:40:10 2011
DuplicateSignature:
 Unpacking replacement gnome-icon-theme-symbolic ...
 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-icon-theme-symbolic_3.2.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/status/keyboard-brightness-symbolic.svg', which is also in package gnome-power-manager 3.1.3-0ubuntu2
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/status/keyboard-brightness-symbolic.svg', which is also in package gnome-power-manager 3.1.3-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
Title: package gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.1.4-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/status/keyboard-brightness-symbolic.svg', which is also in package gnome-power-manager 3.1.3-0ubuntu2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Matt Gerrish (psybernoid) wrote :
tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in gnome-icon-theme-symbolic (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Pablo Saavedra (pablo-a-saavedra) wrote :

I hit this problem today, anyone knows how can I recover from it? APT has become unusable.

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