apt-get install svn-load fails because of conflicting files

Bug #210754 reported by Matej Kenda
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #149677: svn package conflict [hardy, gutsy]. Edit Remove
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svn-load (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: svn-load

I have tried to install the package svn-load in Ubuntu Server 8.04 beta. Installation failed because the file /usr/bin/load was already installed by package subversion-helper-scripts.

svn-load should most probably be removed from the repositories?

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# apt-get install svn-load
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  svn-load
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/8914B of archives.
After this operation, 61.4kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 51420 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking svn-load (from .../svn-load_0.7-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/svn-load_0.7-1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/svn-load', which is also in package subversion-helper-scripts
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/svn-load_0.7-1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Changed in svn-load:
status: New → Confirmed
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