Hello Guillem,
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:47:09PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 20:53:05 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 04:02:35PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
> > > Package: dpkg
> > > Version: 1.15.5.6
> > > Severity: minor
>
> > > man dpkg contains:
> > >
> > > -r, --remove, -P, --purge package...|-a|--pending
> > > Remove an installed package. -r or --remove remove
> > > everything except conffiles. This may avoid having to reconfigure the
> > > package if it is reinstalled later. (Conffiles are configuration files
> > > that
> > > are listed in the DEBIAN/conffiles con- trol file). -P or --purge
> > > removes everything, including conffiles.
> > >
> > > That's only partly correct. In contrast to apt-get purge, dpkg is also
> > > able
> > > to purge already removed packages. This is not well described in the
> > > manual
> > > page ("Remove an installed package."). I suggest to remove "installed"
> > > or
> > > to rewrite it to something as "Remove an (maybe partly) installed
> > > package."
> >
> > If that is the case, then indeed the description does not mention it
> > at all.
>
> Yeah, I didn't fix this at the time, because I wanted to reword the
> entire options description and split it. I'll try to do that for the
> next release, otherwise I will just correct the specific thing reported
> in here, and leave the rework for later.
Thanks!
Greetings
Helge
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