How to refresh package in Debian

[Tom Ellis]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:03:30AM +0000, Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza??ski wrote:
> By coincided I overwrote /etc/init.d/cups on my computer (usage of '>'
> rather than '>>' in cat) and I try to reinstall the file. I tried
> reinstall the whole package (apt-get install cups --reinstall) but it
> doesn't reinstall a missing file.

Perhaps use dpkg-deb -x to extract the contents of the CUPS .deb, and then
copy the file over by hand.