Its debian testing, I think it may have something to do with a new version of XFree86 entering testing. The only reason i know of i would require libxft-dev is when I was doing Mozilla compiling.
(sorry about the big paste).
# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libxft-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
libxft-dev
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 113 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/60.2kB of archives.
After unpacking 4096B disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 142816 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libxft-dev 2.1.2-5 (using .../libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb) ...
diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev
Removing `diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev'
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h' with different file `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h', not allowed
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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