Re: would be a wishlist bug against alien, but ...
- To: Chris Fearnley <cjf@LinuxForce.net>
- Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Fred Harju <fredh@corel.com>, pads@list.LinuxForce.net
- Subject: Re: would be a wishlist bug against alien, but ...
- From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:20:57 -0700
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Chris Fearnley wrote:
> Very good point, I hadn't considered that. But isn't it only a warning in
> dpkg? Or was that fixed?
I think it probably depends on if we're in unstable or not, and whether
dpkg --force-overwrite defaults to on. FWIW, alien -i calls dpkg
--no-force-overwrite.
> And their dependency check is rendered obsolete by alien's calls to
> dpkg-shlibdeps and dh_perl. Correct?
I don't remember, I just don't remember that they struck me as a good
idea when I looked at the patch.
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