Package: php7.3-common Severity: minor Version: 7.3.12-1 Here the user gets warnings, but when he checks, the stuff warned about is already gone.
So maybe something should be done so the "spurious warnings" are never shown to the user. # aptitude purge php~i The following packages will be REMOVED: php-cli{p} php-common{p} php-json{p} php7.3-cli{p} php7.3-common{p} php7.3-json{p} php7.3-opcache{p} php7.3-readline{p} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 12.7 MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y (Reading database ... 167262 files and directories currently installed.) Removing php-cli (2:7.3+69) ... Removing php7.3-cli (7.3.12-1) ... Removing php7.3-readline (7.3.12-1) ... Removing php7.3-opcache (7.3.12-1) ... Removing php-json (2:7.3+69) ... Removing php7.3-json (7.3.12-1) ... Removing php7.3-common (7.3.12-1) ... Removing php-common (2:69) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.0-2) ... (Reading database ... 167143 files and directories currently installed.) Purging configuration files for php-common (2:69) ... Purging configuration files for php7.3-json (7.3.12-1) ... Purging configuration files for php7.3-readline (7.3.12-1) ... Purging configuration files for php7.3-common (7.3.12-1) ... dpkg: warning: while removing php7.3-common, directory '/etc/php/7.3/mods-available' not empty so not removed Purging configuration files for php7.3-cli (7.3.12-1) ... dpkg: warning: while removing php7.3-cli, directory '/etc/php/7.3' not empty so not removed Purging configuration files for php7.3-opcache (7.3.12-1) ... Current status: 0 (+0) broken, 0 (+0) upgradable, 18366 (+0) new. # find /etc/php find: ‘/etc/php’: No such file or directory