$ dpkg  -l  initramfs-tools
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
pn  initramfs-tool <none>         (no description available)


  Perhaps dpkg should suggest some mechanism for one package to add/alter/mark 
files of some other package? 



--- On Tue, 12/23/08, boss ganesh <boss....@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: boss ganesh <boss....@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Bug#509237: purge: /var/lib/initramfs-tools' not empty so not 
> removed
> To: shaulk...@yahoo.com, 509...@bugs.debian.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 7:43 AM
> Dear shaul Kari
>                            It shows the output like that
> but it has almost
> removed all the files.. if any files used by the system
> from that folder it
> throws the error like what you mailed
>       what is the output of     dpkg  -l  initramfs-tools
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:10 AM, shaul Karl
> <shaulk...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Package: initramfs-tools
> > Version: 0.92j
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Not sure if I had 0.92j. As you can see, I have
> already purged it.
> >
> > Removing initramfs-tools ...
> > Purging configuration files for initramfs-tools ...
> > dpkg - warning: while removing initramfs-tools,
> directory
> > `/var/lib/initramfs-tools' not empty so not
> removed.
> >
> > Indeed, /var/lib/initramfs-tools is not empty.
> Wasn't initramfs-tools
> > the one who wrote to that dir in the first place?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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