Bug#45575: Misleading dpkg error message

[Francesco Potorti` <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.9
Severity: wishlist

root@pot# dpkg -i -force-depend /var/tmp/linbot_1.0b9-1.deb
dpkg-deb: unknown option -i

Well, "-i" was the only right thing :-)

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux pot 2.2.10 #3 Mon Jul 12 19:50:44 CEST 1999 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.2-1        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libncurses4     4.2-3.2        Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  libstdc++2.10   2.95.2-0pre1   The GNU stdc++ library