Bug#79233: apt: Reload method to reget and reinstall latest?

[James Mastros <theorb@localhost.debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19
Severity: wishlist

After filesystem corruption (through equipment failure or stupidity), it is
sometimes neccessary to reinstall packages.  Currently, the best way to do
so seems to be to do a dpkg --force-depends --remove followed by an apt-get
install.  It'd be useful, in such cases, to use "apt-get reload" or somesuch
to reget and reinstall the currently installed version.  This is no
different the the normal behavor of apt-get install except that it does not
check that the version being downloaded is >> the existing version.

      Thank you,
      -=- James Mastros

-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux lilith.belledonna.mine.nu 2.4.0-test11 #50 Mon Dec 4 13:55:30 EST 2000 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2-4          GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10  2.95.2-14      The GNU stdc++ library