[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#501553: Bug#501553: ntp is trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/ntptime', which is also in package ntp-server

[Peter Eisentraut]

Jerzy Sobczyk wrote:
> Package: ntp
> Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-7_i386
> 
> When trying to upgrade from version: 1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1_i386.deb
> I receive a message:
> 
> E: /var/cache/apt/archives/ntp_1%3a4.2.4p4+dfsg-7_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/ntptime', which is also in package ntp-server

You need to upgrade from sarge to etch first.  (You are upgrading to 
lenny, it appears.)