Bug#199651: dpkg: Purging instead of removing if no conffiles would be great

2007-01-30 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:26:31AM +0100, Eric Estievenart wrote: = at least 130 could have been purged, with all corresponding files in var/lib/dpkg/info Please note that the difference between remove/purge is one of all configuration of a package, not just its conffiles. dpkg can't know

Bug#199651: dpkg: Purging instead of removing if no conffiles would be great

2007-01-19 Thread Eric Estievenart
Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.25 Followup-For: Bug #199651 $ dpkg -l |grep -v ^ii |wc -l 296 = 296 remove packages with config files remaining (!) I generally use dselect, it would be good if I hadn't potentially ~300 packages with potentially dangling config files, but only the few for which I