2012/2/22 shirish शिरीष <[email protected]>:
>
> would $dpkg -L $deleted-package-name
>
> show the files that are present ? I would test them the next time
> updating removes some files (old libraries which are being replaced by
> newer libraries and so on and so forth)
> .
No. You can list the conf. files with:
$ dpkg-query --showformat='${Conffiles}\n' --show $PKG
Other files and cleanup actions are handled by the "purge" action in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/$PKG.postrm
Not all packages make use of these facilities.
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files
[2]
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-removedetails
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