Bug#395853: "Help, I purged a package and now my configuration is gone."

[Adam Conrad <adconrad@0c3.net>]

Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 
> It seems reasonable to purge apache2-common _after_ apache 2.2 is
> installed.  That will work.  But you apparently purged it _before_
> upgrading to apache 2.2.  That is not reasonable, and will not work.

Unfortunately, "apt-get --purge dist-upgrade" will do just this, and
this is muscle memory for a lot of us (me included).  I'm not positive
what, if anything, we can do about this, but this is not going to be an
isolated bug report, it's likely to be very common.

... Adam