On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 14:36 +0000, The Fungi wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:24:51PM +0000, The Fungi wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:11:50PM +0100, Chris Baines wrote: > > > Ok, that makes my work easier. Still surprising though, I thought > > > the dpkg purge command was meant to as the man page says "remove > > > everything". Obviously it cant do this if the home directory is > > > off limits. > > > > If you can find where you read that statement, and if it was an > > official Debian document, a bug report and patch proposal are in > > order to clarify this point. > > Sorry, you said right there "dpkg [...] man page." I should read more > closely. > > [...] > purge: The package is selected to be purged (i.e. we want to > remove everything, even configuration files). > [...] > Note: some configuration files might be unknown to dpkg because > they are created and handled separately through the configuration > scripts. In that case, dpkg won't remove them by itself, but the > package's postrm script (which is called by dpkg), has to take > care of their removal during purge. > [...] > > Agreed--this is misleading, and clarification is probably in order. > File a minor/wishlist bug against dpkg (or I'll be happy to if you > prefer). > -- > { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); PGP(97AE496FC02DEC9FC353B2E748F9961143495829); > SMTP(fu...@yuggoth.org); IRC(fu...@irc.yuggoth.org#ccl); ICQ(114362511); > AIM(dreadazathoth); YAHOO(crawlingchaoslabs); FINGER(fu...@yuggoth.org); > MUD(kin...@katarsis.mudpy.org:6669); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); } >
I would be happy for you to file a bug as I am not that familiar with the Debian policy on this, and have little experience filing bugs. Thanks, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1282232209.2790.2.ca...@chris-debian-desktop