Paul Seelig wrote: > This means, that still 422 entries for purged packages stay in this > file. Doesn't it strike anyone as kind of strange that *purging* a > package results in such left overs? What is the point of purging a > package if it actually doesn't purge all of a package's traces from > a given system?
Not really. For example, if a package fails to completly clean up on purge and this triggers a bug in another package, it can help debugging if the former package shows up as purged in dpkg -l. -- see shy jo
