[Bug 1551194] Re: Issues with package uninstall

2016-07-04 Thread Michal Dziczkowski
Adam Conrad: The case is that the files WERE provided by the package -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1551194 Title: Issues with package uninstall To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1551194] Re: Issues with package uninstall

2016-07-04 Thread Adam Conrad
If the files aren't shipped with the package or removed by the package's maintainer scripts, dpkg won't go removing "unknown" files. In some cases, the latter might be resolved by purging packages instead of removing ('dpkg -P ' on 'apt-get purge '), but in the case where a package intentionally