On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Alejandro Exojo wrote:
Package: apache-perl
Version: 1.3.31-1
Severity: normal
When purging apache-perl, dpkg complained about /etc/apache-perl,
because it isn't empty. The same applies to apache-ssl:
--8
Removing apache-perl ...
Purging configuration files for apache-perl ...
dpkg - warning: while removing apache-perl, directory `/etc/apache-perl'
not empty so not removed.
Removing apache-ssl ...
Purging configuration files for apache-ssl ...
dpkg - warning: while removing apache-ssl, directory `/etc/apache-ssl'
not empty so not removed.
-8--
This is not a bug. If there are files in /etc/apache-perl or apache-ssl
that do not belong to the package the directories must NOT be removed.
Fabio
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