Bug#145595: dpkg: --force-overwrite is supposed to be on for releases
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:31:56AM -0600, Adam Conrad wrote:
> If we can all agree that the default for "normal users" (and I'm not
> sure there's even close to a consensus here, but let's pretend for the
> moment that there is) should be --force-overwrite, then dpkg should be
> shipping this conffile in THAT state,
That's nice. It's a shame we didn't think of it earlier. But we didn't.
It's far easier to make base-config handle it for woody.
Cheers,
aj
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