[Wylug-help] dist-upgrade on debian unstable

[Felix Ulrich-Oltean]

Hi

I've been merrily running dist-upgrade periodically for many years on 
debian unstable.  Right now though, it's got stuck on x11-common, and 
none of the other packages will upgrade.  I get this error:

Preparing to replace x11-common 1:7.0.18 (using 
.../x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement x11-common ...
dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package ghostview

Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_i386.deb

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Can I persuade it to skip over that one or fix it somehow?

Thanks,

Felix.