also sprach Alan Ezust <alan.ezust@gmail.com> [2007.07.06.0017 +0200]:
> Yes, I see it is indeed only prompting me for conffiles that I
> manually modified. In my particular situation, and I realize this is
> unusual/dangerous, I still would like to to clobber my handmade
> changes with newer versions from a .deb file. Setting those two
> environment variables did not change the behavior of dpkg in this
> particular case.
Try adding
DPkg::options {"--force-confnew";};
to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/local-dpkg_force-confnew
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