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Bug#145595: dpkg: --force-overwrite is supposed to be on for releases



Previously Joey Hess wrote:
> 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.

We can change it to not be a conffile I suppose.

> 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.

It means we won't have to do a dpkg upload just to change a default
anymore.

Wichert.

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