Comment 5 for bug 1364642

These are the latest of the kind, except for this one:

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1365719

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1363695

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1347781

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1346809

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1346754

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1341690

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1315177

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1295481

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1295442

Some are detected to be hardware issues, some are not. Also when it's considered a hardware issue people have reported that a removal fixes the issue; see for instance comment #5 in bug #1346809.

Is it really necessary that dpkg carries out that check? Can't it just install the link and overwrite whatever with the same name was there before? I agree it would be good to fix it in dpkg. If that's not possible, some workaround in ubuntu-docs would indeed be helpful.