What's the point?

The "replacing" is already done via hardlink creation if the files are
on the same filesystem. I.e. the operation is quite cheap.

Checking file contents is the expensive part but this cannot be avoided
(easily).

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option on import to not replace current packages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/602593
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