Hi Joey, 

FYI, here are the messages generated by dpkg --force-overwrite when
installing manpages-dev 2.25-2:

Unpacking replacement manpages-dev ...
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man2/create_module.2.gz', which is also in 
package modutils
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man2/init_module.2.gz', which is also in 
package modutils
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man2/delete_module.2.gz', which is also in 
package modutils
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man2/get_kernel_syms.2.gz', which is also 
in package modutils
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man2/query_module.2.gz', which is also in 
package modutils

Time to get rid of modutils on my system anyway ;) 

Greetings

        Torsten

PS: Zweite Diplomprüfung ist im Kasten, zwei sind noch über...

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