Re: Purging a replaced program
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org> wrote:
> Qestion 1: Why is webmin shown as ic. It should have been replaced no?
> Certainly all its' conffiles should belong to webmin-ssl shouldn't they?
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/webmin.list exists but it is 0 length.
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/webmin.conffiles does not exist.
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/webmin.postrm still exists.
> Question 2: why is webmins' postrm still hanging around?
Please read policy section 7.5.1 and the dpkg source code.
Anyway, completely replacing a package (making it disappear) requires a
couple of things:
1. You can not conflict with the said package.
2. You must replace every single file in that package.
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