purge never removes anything from users home directories. It's up to them to do 
so. This is sane - especially in multi-users environments - and I don't think 
it will ever change. See debian policy for more info
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files

I agree that the apt-get man page amy make that fact clearer though.

** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Running sudo apt-get purge pidgin should remove account information. 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411936
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