same file i different packages

Bug #197885 reported by Henrik Hellerstedt
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hyphen (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

(Reading database ... 127876 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us (from .../openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us_2.3.1-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us_2.3.1-1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/myspell/dicts/hyph_en_US.dic', which is also in package openoffice.org-hyphenation
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us_2.3.1-1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Murat Gunes (mgunes) wrote :

Thanks for reporting. This issue has been reported before as bug #192310 and I'm marking your report as a duplicate of it.

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