Re: dpkg --purge

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

brian white writes ("dpkg --purge "):
> I've notice that dpkg sometimes leaves empty directories around after it
> has purged a package, reporting that they are not empty even though they
> are.  As far as I can tell, dpkg is seeing conffiles in those directories,
> thus reporting the problem but then deleting the conffiles.  Is there
> any way that dpkg could make another attempt at removing the directories
> after it has removed conffiles?

Yes, but I haven't got around to it as leaving a few empty directories
occasionally seemed less important than many other things.

It is on my wishlist.

Ian.