guidance-backends wants to overwrite files provided by guidance-power-manager

Bug #245580 reported by Stas Verberkt
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guidance-power-manager (Ubuntu)
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kde-guidance (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: kde-guidance

Since the seperation of guidance-power-manager in Intrepid (the KDE 4 version). The package conflicts with those from kde-guidance. The package guidance-backends contains files that are also in guidance-power-manager.
guidance-backends is on my system required by jockey-common.

Here is what aptitude says:
Setting up guidance-backends (0.8.0svn20080103-0ubuntu19) ...
Usage: update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package_directory [...]
       update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package.dirs [...]
       update-python-modules [-v] [-a|-f|-p]

update-python-modules: error: Trying to overwrite xf86misc.py which is already provided by /usr/share/python-support/guidance-power-manager
dpkg: error processing guidance-backends (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Setting up guidance-power-manager (4:4.0.83-0ubuntu2) ...
Usage: update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package_directory [...]
       update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package.dirs [...]
       update-python-modules [-v] [-a|-f|-p]

update-python-modules: error: Trying to overwrite xf86misc.py which is already provided by /usr/share/python-support/guidance-backends
dpkg: error processing guidance-power-manager (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

The error occured while doing a "aptitude full-upgrade". My system runs Kubuntu Intrepid. The versions of the packages are above in the aptitude output. My expectation was a clean upgrade, what happened was aptitude not being able to configure because of the double files.

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Stas Verberkt (legolas) wrote :

Didn't see it already being reported by guidance-power-manager, as the problem by me occurs when the upgrade tries installing guidance-power-manager and in the other report the other way round.

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