On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 03:48:39PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > It used to be that when dpkg installed a file with --force-overwrite > it wouldn't delete the file till both packages which provided the file > were removed. Are you sure that was ever the case? There were warnings about overwrites, detailing exactly how files could get lost this way, when I first joined the project. The documentation was already old at that time. Richard Braakman