Re: New dpkg overwrite behaviour undesirable

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Bruce Perens writes ("Re: New dpkg overwrite behaviour undesirable"):
> You can add the --force-overwrite flag to make this a complaint rather
> than an abort. I think Ian was attempting to get the problems fixed by
> being draconian about them. I don't think this is going to work for the
> public or beta 1.1 upgrade, though. We might have to wire --force-overwrite
> on before then.

The solution is for packages to use the Replaces field to make dpkg be
happy about overwriting the file(s).

If this turns out to be truly uncopeable-with before the release I can
easily turn on --force-overwrite by default.

Ian.