> > A packaging problem. I did a `dpkg -i --force-overwrite > > This is the Wrong Thing(tm) to do. Any kind of --force-* is > Nasty(tm) in a stable distribution (with development > distributions it is OK and, AFAIK, the default).
Hi. Firstly, let me say that with the 0404 packages, you can use --force-overwrite and no harm will come to you, _as_long_as_ you upgrade koffice-libs *first*. The problem is that the old koffice-libs contains lots of man pages that link to undocumented. The newer (0404) binary packages each contain their own real (albeit minimal) man pages and I forgot some conflicts lines (*blush*), hence the clash. Yes, --force-* is wrong for a stable distribution. However, the packages on kde.debian.net are *not* stable. This is one of many reasons they're on kde.debian.net and not ftp.debian.org. They're the unstable packages ported to potato so that potato users can have the benefit of using them, which means they're even *more* unstable than the unstable packages - there is an extra place for things to screw up (namely the backporting from sid to potato). Now all of this being said, there are currently beta1-2 packages in sid that should resolve all of the nasty conflicts you are all finding with the 0404 packages. Once these are backported to potato, hopefully everything will install cleanly and everyone will be happier. :) Ben. -- Ben Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Director of Training Australian Informatics Olympiad Committee There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. - Oscar Wilde
