Hi,
thanks for your bugreport!
This functionality is already provided by dpkg and I don't think that it
provides any benefit to add this to deborphan. Those users that care
about the difference between not purged but removed packages that have
any configuration files left and not purged but removed packages that
don't have any configuration left normally know about dpkg -l.
Also I don't see any benefit in reimplementing existing features
provided by essentail packages like dpkg and I don't think that
displaying such information is deborphans job (if --find-config would
not already be part of deborphan, I would possibly even tag a wishlist
bug for this option as wontfix or reassign it to dpkg).
I added the following paragraph to deborphans README und thus will close
this bug with the next upload. ^ matches the beginning of the line, that
part was missing in your example to avoid false positives.
| LISTING ALL UNINSTALLED PACKAGES
| --------------------------------
| deborphan --find-config lists uninstalled packages which still have
| configuration files left on the system. Listing all uninstalled packages,
| including those that don't have any configuration files left, is not
| supported by deborphan, since this is already implemented in dpkg. Use the
| following command to display them: dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | awk '{print $2}'
Regards,
Carsten
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