Brian May wrote: > >Unfortunatly, it looks like the current version of dpkg has > >--force-overwrite (which is what I meant to say above) enabled by default. > >And so anyone who ran dselect in the past 24 hours and upgraded from > >unstable has probably beeen bitten by this bad package. > > Can you be certain that dselect doesn't give dpkg the --force-overwrite > option?
IIRC, I wrote the above after running dpkg on the broken debhelper package by hand and watching it overwrite the files. > My versions of dpkg claim that --force-overwrite isn't on be default > (otherwise it should have [*] after it): That means nothing, you can turn off options in dpkg without editing that output. (Bad design, IMHO.) -- see shy jo