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[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:08:45AM -0500, nobody at rockwellcollins.com wrote:

> I understand packages in universe are not supported.  But they should not
> break the system so completely like in this case.  Are there any checks
> that forbid a package from universe from overwriting a file from a package
> in main?

Packages cannot overwrite one another's files; dpkg issues an error and
aborts in this case.  Something else went wrong, presumably a bug in an
unsupported package.

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 - mdz