Bug#36252: apt: apt always overwrites

["Carl R. Witty" <cwitty@newtonlabs.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.4

Apt should have a configuration option to allow calling dpkg with the
--no-force-overwrite option.  (Or, if it has such a configuration
option, it should be better documented.)

Carl Witty

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux nebula 2.0.35 #1 Thu Nov 19 00:04:16 PST 1998 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.1-0.2      GNU C Library: shared libraries
ii  libstdc++2.9    2.91.61-1      The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)