Bug#576338: [dpkg] --purge not well described in manual page dpkg.1

2014-08-16 Thread Helge Kreutzmann 
Hello Guillem,
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:47:09PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
 On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 20:53:05 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
  On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 04:02:35PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
   Package: dpkg
   Version: 1.15.5.6
   Severity: minor
 
   man dpkg contains:
   
-r, --remove, -P, --purge package...|-a|--pending
   Remove  an  installed  package. -r or --remove remove
   everything except conffiles. This may avoid having to reconfigure the
   package if it is reinstalled later. (Conffiles are configuration files 
   that
   are listed in the DEBIAN/conffiles con- trol  file).  -P  or  --purge
   removes everything, including conffiles.
   
   That's only partly correct. In contrast to apt-get purge, dpkg is also 
   able
   to purge already removed packages. This is not well described in the 
   manual
   page (Remove  an  installed  package.). I suggest to remove installed 
   or
   to rewrite it to something as Remove an (maybe partly) installed 
   package.
  
  If that is the case, then indeed the description does not mention it
  at all.
 
 Yeah, I didn't fix this at the time, because I wanted to reword the
 entire options description and split it. I'll try to do that for the
 next release, otherwise I will just correct the specific thing reported
 in here, and leave the rework for later.

Thanks!

Greetings

   Helge

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Bug#576338: [dpkg] --purge not well described in manual page dpkg.1

2014-08-15 Thread Helge Kreutzmann 
Hello,
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 04:02:35PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
 Package: dpkg
 Version: 1.15.5.6
 Severity: minor
 
 Hi,
 
 man dpkg contains:
 
  -r, --remove, -P, --purge package...|-a|--pending
 Remove  an  installed  package. -r or --remove remove
 everything except conffiles. This may avoid having to reconfigure the
 package if it is reinstalled later. (Conffiles are configuration files that
 are listed in the DEBIAN/conffiles con- trol  file).  -P  or  --purge
 removes everything, including conffiles.
 
 That's only partly correct. In contrast to apt-get purge, dpkg is also able
 to purge already removed packages. This is not well described in the manual
 page (Remove  an  installed  package.). I suggest to remove installed or
 to rewrite it to something as Remove an (maybe partly) installed package.

If that is the case, then indeed the description does not mention it
at all.

Greetings

Helge
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Bug#576338: [dpkg] --purge not well described in manual page dpkg.1

2014-08-15 Thread Guillem Jover 
Hi!

On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 20:53:05 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
 On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 04:02:35PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
  Package: dpkg
  Version: 1.15.5.6
  Severity: minor

  man dpkg contains:
  
   -r, --remove, -P, --purge package...|-a|--pending
Remove  an  installed  package. -r or --remove remove
  everything except conffiles. This may avoid having to reconfigure the
  package if it is reinstalled later. (Conffiles are configuration files that
  are listed in the DEBIAN/conffiles con- trol  file).  -P  or  --purge
  removes everything, including conffiles.
  
  That's only partly correct. In contrast to apt-get purge, dpkg is also able
  to purge already removed packages. This is not well described in the manual
  page (Remove  an  installed  package.). I suggest to remove installed or
  to rewrite it to something as Remove an (maybe partly) installed package.
 
 If that is the case, then indeed the description does not mention it
 at all.

Yeah, I didn't fix this at the time, because I wanted to reword the
entire options description and split it. I'll try to do that for the
next release, otherwise I will just correct the specific thing reported
in here, and leave the rework for later.

Thanks,
Guillem


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Bug#576338: [dpkg] --purge not well described in manual page dpkg.1

2010-04-03 Thread Jens Seidel 
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.5.6
Severity: minor

Hi,

man dpkg contains:

 -r, --remove, -P, --purge package...|-a|--pending
  Remove  an  installed  package. -r or --remove remove
everything except conffiles. This may avoid having to reconfigure the
package if it is reinstalled later. (Conffiles are configuration files that
are listed in the DEBIAN/conffiles con- trol  file).  -P  or  --purge
removes everything, including conffiles.

That's only partly correct. In contrast to apt-get purge, dpkg is also able
to purge already removed packages. This is not well described in the manual
page (Remove  an  installed  package.). I suggest to remove installed or
to rewrite it to something as Remove an (maybe partly) installed package.

Jens



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