Bug#145595: dpkg: --force-overwrite is supposed to be on for releases
Anthony Towns wrote:
> It'd be relatively straightforward to have the installer enable
> force-overwrite on "stable" installs and disable it on "testing" installs.
>
> But for woody, surely the best thing is to just have base-config munge it
> (editing /var/lib/dpkg/status if you like) and be done with it? Worrying
> about changing it from a conffile to something maintained in the maintainer
> scripts can be done when 1.10.x comes out.
I don't really want to make base-config mess with this for woody, the
damn thing has broken enough recently.
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