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Handling alien packages gracefully

From: Scott Ellis <storm@gate.net>
> I think the first bit to keep from breaking things is to make sure that
> packages converted by alien aren't installed with --force-overwrite
> enabled.

Good point. I think this is part of the way to handle the problem.
The other part is a control file field "Distribution", and dpkg should
complain when you attempt to replace a package with Distribution=Debian
with a same-named package with Distribution!=Debian .

	Bruce
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