The debian-private mailing list leak, part 1. Volunteers have complained about Blackmail. Lynchings. Character assassination. Defamation. Cyberbullying. Volunteers who gave many years of their lives are picked out at random for cruel social experiments. The former DPL's girlfriend Molly de Blanc is given volunteers to experiment on for her crazy talks. These volunteers never consented to be used like lab rats. We don't either. debian-private can no longer be a safe space for the cabal. Let these monsters have nowhere to hide. Volunteers are not disposable. We stand with the victims.
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Re: DPKG, RPM. Life sucks.

Christoph <debian@waterf.org> writes:

> The habit of dpkg to have --force-overwrite as a default has always
> puzzled me. IMHO it is a bug if a package overwrites files without a
> replaces: field in control. --force-overwrite should never be
> automatically enabled as it is right now.

It's a historical artifact.  When the ability to detect and abort on
this condition was first introduced, it was on by default, but it
broke the installation of so many packages at the time (mostly man
page problems) that it was "temporarily" disabled.  Temporarily was
not supposed to become permanently...

--
Rob