auto-install-tester can not install/remove this package

Bug #576541 reported by Michael Vogt
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python-dmidecode (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: python-dmidecode

During a automatic intall/remove of the package the following problems were found from the package auto-install-tester on current lucid:
The following extra packages will be installed:
  python-dmidecode
The following NEW packages will be installed
  python-dmidecode python-dmidecode-dbg
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 146 not upgraded.
Need to get 89.8kB/180kB of archives.
After this operation, 672kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get: 1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe python-dmidecode-dbg 3.10.7-1.1ubuntu1 [89.8kB]
Fetched 89.8kB in 0s (145kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package python-dmidecode.
(Reading database ...
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `nvidia-glx-new' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 416156 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python-dmidecode (from .../python-dmidecode_3.10.7-1.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package python-dmidecode-dbg.
Unpacking python-dmidecode-dbg (from .../python-dmidecode-dbg_3.10.7-1.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python-dmidecode-dbg_3.10.7-1.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/pyshared/dmidecode.py', which is also in package python-dmidecode 0:3.10.7-1.1ubuntu1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/python-dmidecode-dbg_3.10.7-1.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Michael Vogt (mvo)
tags: added: pkg-auto-install-tester
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