reassign 182368 dpkg severity 182368 normal merge 112386 182368 thanks On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:06:53AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.5.4 > Severity: wishlist > File: /usr/bin/apt-get > > Please consider the user's impression upon purging many packages, > e.g., > > # apt-get --purge remove dhcp-client > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > dhcp-client* > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 216 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 348kB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > (Reading database ... 214035 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing dhcp-client ... > dpkg - warning: while removing dhcp-client, directory `/var/lib/dhcp' > not empty so not removed. > Purging configuration files for dhcp-client ... > # ls -l /var/lib/dhcp > ls: /var/lib/dhcp: No such file or directory > > I.e., please figure out a way to show that maybe indeed that dir got > removed later when running postrm, etc.
This has nothing to do with apt, and has already been reported against dpkg. Reassigning and merging. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
