[mossroy]

I face the same issue with the .deb files from unstable PPA (version 2:11.0~git20111222.22ad8e4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~lucid)
The packages xbmc-eventclients-common and xbmc-eventclients-wiiremote can not be installed because they conflict with packages xbmc and xbmc-bin.

I managed to force the installation with dpkg --force-conflicts : xbmc & wiimote work correctly after that, but it breaks apt-get until I remove these packages.

If you look at the "control" file in the .deb package, the following conflicts are declared :

Package: xbmc
(...)
Conflicts: xbmc-data, xbmc-eventclients-common, xbmc-eventclients-dev, xbmc-eventclients-j2me, xbmc-eventclients-ps3, xbmc-eventclients-xbmc-send, xbmc-skin-confluence, xbmc-standalone
Replaces: xbmc-data, xbmc-eventclients-common, xbmc-eventclients-dev, xbmc-eventclients-j2me, xbmc-eventclients-ps3, xbmc-eventclients-xbmc-send, xbmc-skin-confluence, xbmc-standalone
Provides: xbmc-data, xbmc-eventclients-common, xbmc-eventclients-dev, xbmc-eventclients-j2me, xbmc-eventclients-ps3, xbmc-eventclients-xbmc-send, xbmc-skin-confluence, xbmc-standalone

Package: xbmc-bin
(...)
Conflicts: xbmc-common, xbmc-eventclients-wiiremote
Replaces: xbmc-common, xbmc-eventclients-wiiremote
Provides: xbmc-common, xbmc-eventclients-wiiremote

It looks like it comes from this source file :
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc-packaging/b...an/control

Is there any good reason why these packages are declared conflicted?