Bug#93090: apt: It would be nice for apt to check if a file exists before an over write

[Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 david.maslen@iname.com wrote:

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.3
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I wanted to check I had the latest debian diffs to rebuild xfree86.
> I already had the xfree.orig.tar ball in the current directory.
> I used apt-get source xfree86, and apt over wrote the existing 50meg
> tar ball in an attempt to replace it with a fresh copy.
>
> I would have liked to have been asked something along the lines of,
> file exists, skip or overwrite?
>
> Or perhaps I would have liked an option to specify that I only wanted the
> diff and dsc files.

--diff-only