Re: Purging a replaced program

["Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@debian.org>]

This problem was originally posted to debian-mentors but is reposted here
to get a wider audience.  The background is webmin and webmin-ssl are
interchangeable (except the latter has ssl enabled.)  They provide,
conflict, and replace each other.  A user reported that if he installed
webmin, then webmin-ssl he was then not able to purge webmin.

Here is what I get after installing webmin, then webmin-ssl  (Both
provide, conflict, and replace each other.):


$ dpkg -l | grep webmin
ic  webmin         0.92-1         Web-based administration toolkit
ii  webmin-core    0.92-1         core modules for webmin
ii  webmin-ssl     0.92-2         Web-based administration toolkit

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?

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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