Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/dpkg.1.gz
After: -r, --remove package...|-a|--pending Remove an installed package. This removes everything except conffiles, which may avoid having to reconfigure the package if it is reinstalled later (conffiles are configuration files that are listed in the DEBIAN/conffiles control file). Important to please add: "If there is no DEBIAN/conffiles control file, then --remove is exactly equivalent to --purge." Else users will wonder why some dpkg --remove $@ && dpkg --purge $@ will succeed, and some will fail. Especially as you also say -P, --purge package...|-a|--pending Purge an installed or already removed package.