Bug#145595: dpkg: --force-overwrite is supposed to be on for releases
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.9.20
Severity: normal
It is unfortunate that woody will ship with a dpkg that does not have
--force-overwrite defaulting to on. IIRC we've always tried to turn it
on for release and off in between so file conclicts can be spotted.
There are still file conflicts in woody, like #141838.
There should probably be some procedure in place so we remember to turn
it on at the right time.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux satin 2.4.18 #1 Wed May 1 22:30:02 EDT 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library
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