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Re: [2002-04-30] Release Status Update



Michael Stone wrote:
> So it's better for the user to get an inderminate file? File conflicts
> are always serious bugs (nothing to do with bts) that could very easily
> break something. This gets worse as we encourage people to use
> third-party apt sources; if force-overwrite is turned on it's trivial to
> accidentally screw things up. When is it not good to alert the user to a
> potenially disastrous, abnormal situation?

This certianly sounds dreadful and all, but it didn't seem to cause any
problems in practice in potato, hamm, rexx, or bo.

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