Bug#93090: apt: It would be nice for apt to check if a file exists before an over write

[david.maslen@iname.com]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: wishlist

I wanted to check I had the latest debian diffs to rebuild xfree86.
I already had the xfree.orig.tar ball in the current directory.
I used apt-get source xfree86, and apt over wrote the existing 50meg
tar ball in an attempt to replace it with a fresh copy.

I would have liked to have been asked something along the lines of, 
file exists, skip or overwrite?

Or perhaps I would have liked an option to specify that I only wanted the 
diff and dsc files.

cheers
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux trinity 2.4.2 #1 Tue Apr 3 21:22:15 EST 2001 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
hi  libstdc++2.10- 2.95.3-6       The GNU stdc++ library
ii  libc6          2.2.2-4        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone