On 2020-03-07, Dan Purgert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I was under the (perhaps wrong?) impression that "remove" leaves the >> conffiles alone and "purge" removes them. > > Your understanding is correct, at least according to the manual: > > remove > remove is identical to install except that packages are > removed instead of installed. Note that removing a package > leaves its configuration files on the system. > > purge > purge is identical to remove except that packages are removed > and purged (any configuration files are deleted too). >
If a package that is in state Config Files has to be purged, the cycle is really simple: the conffiles are deleted and *then* (emphasis mine) postrm purge is called. https://wiki.debian.org/MaintainerScripts The policy violation and bug #953223 consists of the postrm script purging the conffiles, whereas that task falls within dpkg's domain. How exactly Monsieur Bigonville arrived at this discovery I can't quite grasp (if I'm not misunderstanding the whole thing and making a fool out of myself again). Maybe the bug reporter had both fuse and fuse3 installed simultaneously, at which point he purged one or the other. Both packages provide an /etc/fuse.conf file. -- Nous fîmes l'amour longtemps, à la façon des craquements qui se produisent dans les meubles. Nous fîmes l'amour comme le soleil bat, comme les cercueils ferment, comme le silence appelle, comme la nuit brille. Et dans nos yeux qui n'étaient jamais ouverts en même temps ne se débattaient rien que nos sorts les plus purs. --André Breton
