Comment 1 for bug 115107

I have also experienced this exact problem when trying to build a newer version of Filelight (1.0 is not in the repositories yet) and xsidplay (to get libsidplay2 support). I get failures upon trying to overwrite /bin/ld.

Upon examination of the filelight .deb, I noticed that it also included all the files the above poster listed, and a couple of files from my home directory in the .qt configuration settings. I have no idea why it decided it needed to do that either. Most of these extraneous files, such as /usr/bin/ld, had zero size.

Now, in the case of xsidplay I've done it often enough I actually made a script to do most of it for me. This script was unaltered, and worked before but does not now.
In the case of Filelight, I downloaded the new source and the source deb currently in the repositories (from which I copied the debian/ folder) and ran ./configure and then checkinstall -D. The configure appeared to work perfectly.