Bug#327139: apache-perl purge ate /etc/apache

[Geoff Crompton <geoff.crompton@strategicdata.com.au>]

Adam Conrad wrote:
> Geoff Crompton wrote:
> 
>>ii  apache         1.3.33-6sarge1 versatile, high-performance HTTP server
>>pc  apache-perl    1.3.9-13.1-1.2 Versatile, high-performance HTTP
> 
> 
> There's nothing I can do to fix the potato (!) version of apache-perl at
> this point.
> 
> ... Adam


Thats an excellent point, one which occured to me after I sent my bug
report through.

Do you have any recommendations on how to safely purge apache-perl? I
thought it'd be good to have it documented in this bug report, for
future people that might stumble across this.

Strategies that I thought might work (but don't want to test on the
clients system) were:

 * install newest version of apache-perl, then purge it (don't know if
that will trigger the old apache-perl postrm
 * manually edit files in /var/lib/dpkg/info to remove references to
things belonging to apache, then purge
 * manually purge it by removing files in /var/lib/dpkg/info

However in each of these cases, I'm not sure of the specifics. Ie, what
would need to be removed for the third option, or what changes will make
purging safe in the second option.

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Geoff Crompton
Debian System Administrator
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