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Bug#391094: packaging errors remove old apache2 but prevent install of apache2.2



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Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:36:29AM +0200, David Paleino wrote:
>> Hi Moshe,
>> it's not that serious problem.
>> You can solve by simply doing a:
>> 
>> # dpkg --force-overwrite -i
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/apache2.2-common_2.2.3-1_i386.deb
> 
> Which can break your system in all kinds of other subtle ways...

How could it?

It will overwrite only /usr/share/man/man8/suexec.8.gz , and that's just
a man page.

I've never had problems with --force-overwrite, have I just been lucky?

David

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