Bug#145595: dpkg: --force-overwrite is supposed to be on for releases
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Joey Hess wrote:
> > It is unfortunate that woody will ship with a dpkg that does not have
> > --force-overwrite defaulting to on.
>
> This was done on purpose as announced. The idea is that you can now
> set this in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg and the installer could turn it on there.
Wherever you announced it to, it didn't seem to come to the attention of
me or anyone else who is in a position to make the installer do that. (I
knew about the config file, but..)
If you're going to keep dpkg.cfg a conffile, I'm not going to make
base-config touch it, which is probably the obvious place to change the
setting. I don't really understand why you think pushing changing this
setting off to another package is going to be more robust or easier,
either.
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