latest aptitude upgrade fails

Now it seems I am stuck somehwere in dependency h&ll..
tried apt-get install -f and aptitude safe-upgrade and aptitue upgrade:

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 283155 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libavutil49 (from .../libavutil49_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libavutil49_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libavutil.so.49', which is also in package
libavutilcvs49
Unpacking libavcodec51 (from .../libavcodec51_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libavcodec51_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51', which is also in package
libavcodeccvs51
Unpacking libavformat52 (from .../libavformat52_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libavformat52_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libavformat.so.52', which is also in package
libavformatcvs52
Unpacking libpostproc51 (from .../libpostproc51_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libpostproc51_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libpostproc.so.51.1.0', which is also in
package libpostproccvs51
Unpacking libswscale0 (from .../libswscale0_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libswscale0_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libswscale.so.0.5.0', which is also in package
libswscalecvs0
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libavutil49_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libavcodec51_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libavformat52_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpostproc51_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libswscale0_0.svn20080206-8_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libxine1-ffmpeg:
libxine1-ffmpeg depends on libavcodec51 (>= 0.svn20080206); however:
Package libavcodec51 is not installed.
libxine1-ffmpeg depends on libavutil49 (>= 0.svn20080206); however:
Package libavutil49 is not installed.
libxine1-ffmpeg depends on libpostproc51 (>= 0.svn20080206); however:
Package libpostproc51 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing libxine1-ffmpeg (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libquicktime1:
libquicktime1 depends on libavcodec51 (>= 0.svn20080206); however:
Package libavcodec51 is not installed.
libquicktime1 depends on libavutil49 (>= 0.svn20080206); however:
Package libavutil49 is not installed.
libquicktime1 depends on libswscale0 (>= 0.svn20080206); however:
Package libswscale0 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing libquicktime1 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg:
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg depends on libavcodec51 (>= 0.svn20080206); however:
Package libavcodec51 is not installed.
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg depends on libavformat52 (>= 0.svn20080206); however:
Package libavformat52 is not installed.
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg depends on libavutil49 (>= 0.svn20080206); however:
Package libavutil49 is not installed.
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg depends on libpostproc51 (>= 0.svn20080206); however:
Package libpostproc51 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vlc-nox:
vlc-nox depends on libavcodec51 (>= 0.svn20080206); however:
Package libavcodec51 is not installed.
vlc-nox depends on libavformat52 (>= 0.svn20080206); however:
Package libavformat52 is not installed.
vlc-nox depends on libavutil49 (>= 0.svn20080206); however:
Package libavutil49 is not installed.
vlc-nox depends on libpostproc51 (>= 0.svn20080206); however:
Package libpostproc51 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing vlc-nox (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vlc:
vlc depends on vlc-nox (= 0.8.6.e-2.3+b1); however:
Package vlc-nox is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing vlc (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:

do I just wait for newer packages??
running Lenny..
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Paul Cartwright
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