Hello,
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 04:02:35PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.15.5.6
> Severity: minor
>
> Hi,
>
> 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.
Greetings
Helge
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