Bug#40977: dpkg fails to overwite and returns error
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 12:40:28PM +0200, VALETTE Eric wrote:
> 1) This is not written anywhere,
It's in the changelog. Besides, this is unstable, you are expected to know
your way around things. This was discussed somewhere, but I can't remember
where.
> 2) This is new,
It has been done with previous unstables.
> Once you've got such a package, dselect fails automatically...
True. But the bug is in the offending package, not in dpkg. Do you
file a bug in LaTeX if it chokes on invalid input? I wouldn't.
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