The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 3840cdc4704a175e47884763d259c677041896fd
Author: Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun Jun 1 21:05:07 2008 +0200
dpkg(1): further improve explanation about conffiles
* man/dpkg.1: Refer to configuration files in the explanation about
package's states because all configuration files (conffiles and
non-conffiles) should be properly handled by the packages. conffiles are
handled by dpkg itself, and non-conffile configuration files by the
configuration scripts. Explain this in the paragraph about removal
of packages.
diff --git a/man/dpkg.1 b/man/dpkg.1
index 834dc09..f7d68ed 100644
--- a/man/dpkg.1
+++ b/man/dpkg.1
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ be changed mainly with \fBdselect\fP.
The package is not installed on your system.
.TP
.B config\-files
-Only the conffiles of the package exist on the system.
+Only the configuration files of the package exist on the system.
.TP
.B half\-installed
The installation of the package has been started, but not completed for
@@ -79,11 +79,11 @@ The package is selected for installation.
.TP
.B deinstall
The package is selected for deinstallation (i.e. we want to remove all
-files, except conffiles).
+files, except configuration files).
.TP
.B purge
The package is selected to be purged (i.e. we want to remove everything,
-even conffiles).
+even configuration files).
.SS PACKAGE FLAGS
.TP
.B hold
@@ -164,7 +164,11 @@ file). \fB\-P\fP or \fB\-\-purge\fP removes everything,
including
conffiles. If \fB\-a\fP or \fB\-\-pending\fP is given instead of a package
name, then all packages unpacked, but marked to be removed or purged
in file \fI/var/lib/dpkg/status\fP, are removed or purged,
-respectively.
+respectively. Note: some configuration files might be unknown to
+\fBdpkg\fP because they are created and handled separately through the
+configuration scripts. In that case, \fBdpkg\fP won't remove them by
+itself, but the package's \fIpostrm\fP script (which is called by
+\fBdpkg\fP), has to take care of their removal during purge.
Removing of a package consists of the following steps:
.br
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dpkg's main repository
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