Re: WARNING: Re: debhelper & /usr/bin/passwd

[Stephen Zander <gibreel@pobox.com>]

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> writes:
    Brian> My versions of dpkg claim that --force-overwrite isn't on
    Brian> be default (otherwise it should have [*] after it):

As does mine: and it lies!  I've been testing package upgrades & dpkg
itself is very definately using --force-overwite

  $ dpkg -l dpkg
  ii  dpkg 1.4.1 Package maintenance system for Debian Linux

-- 
Stephen
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