Bug#74765: apt: An option to force get of latest-version packages would be nice.

[James Mastros <theorb@mimis.host4u.net>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19
Severity: wishlist

It would be convient, from time to time, to be able to force reget and
reinstall of packages which the user already has the latest version of.  For
example, if there is filesystem damage, a reget of existing packages can be
used to replace missing files.  It seems like it should be rather trivial to
implement, but I don't know much about the dependency-analysis system of apt.

	Thank you,
	-=- James Mastros

-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux lilith.belledonna.dyndns.org 2.4.0-test9 #5 Thu Oct 12 03:28:12 EDT 2000 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.1.94-3       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10  2.95.2-14      The GNU stdc++ library