Bug#369180: --force flag does not seem to work

[martin f krafft]

Package: mdadm
Severity: normal
Version: 1.12.0-1

Trying to assemble a dirty degraded RAID 5, I found the --force flag
not to do what I would expect. Instead of forcefully assembling
a dirty degraded array, it exited with the same error as if I had
not used --force. I am not sure whether this is mdadm or the kernel.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'testing'), (98, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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