The following commit has been merged in the sid branch:
commit bbc30fb513d891a6de77e15ef8d6ffb187c6bc5a
Author: The Fungi <fu...@yuggoth.org>
Date: Thu Aug 19 17:42:07 2010 +0000
dpkg(1): Clarify effect of --purge on files in homedirs
Closes: #593628
Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b784da4..ae724cf 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ dpkg (1.15.8.5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
this happens normally when the package was never installed before.
* Improve git format documentation in dpkg-source(1).
Thanks to Joey Hess, based on a patch by Tanguy Ortolo.
+ * Clarify effect of “dpkg --purge” on homedir files in dpkg(1).
+ Thanks to The Fungi <fu...@yuggoth.org>. Closes: #593628
[ Updated programs translations ]
* Italian (Milo Casagrande). Closes: #592953
diff --git a/man/dpkg.1 b/man/dpkg.1
index 2e064e2..0fdaf97 100644
--- a/man/dpkg.1
+++ b/man/dpkg.1
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ The package is selected for deinstallation (i.e. we want to
remove all
files, except configuration files).
.TP
.B purge
-The package is selected to be purged (i.e. we want to remove everything,
-even configuration files).
+The package is selected to be purged (i.e. we want to remove everything
+from system directories, even configuration files).
.SS PACKAGE FLAGS
.TP
.B reinst\-required
@@ -172,7 +172,9 @@ respectively. Note: some configuration files might be
unknown to
\fBdpkg\fP because they are created and handled separately through the
configuration scripts. In that case, \fBdpkg\fP won't remove them by
itself, but the package's \fIpostrm\fP script (which is called by
-\fBdpkg\fP), has to take care of their removal during purge.
+\fBdpkg\fP), has to take care of their removal during purge. Of course,
+this only applies to files in system directories, not configuration files
+written to individual users' home directories.
Removing of a package consists of the following steps:
.br
--
dpkg's main repository
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