Andy Mortimer <andy.mortimer@poboxes.com> writes: > And is there any reason why I shouldn't use > --refuse-overwrite in dpkg-mountable, and report bugs against packages > which include the same file as each other? No reason at all. Please do file the bugs. When --force-overwrite was first introduced into dpkg, it was off by default and caused many problems. We decided to *temporarily* turn it on until all the packages could be fixed. Guy