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Re: How to get dpkg to remove directories?



Previously Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'm completely stumped.  I can't figure out how to get dpkg to
> completely remove a package.  I've created a package that
> contains nothing but two empty files:
> 
>  /etc/foo/config
>  /etc/foo/bar
> 
> The first is a conffile, the second isn't.

That makes the second one is a bug, everything in /etc should be a
conffile or not part of a package.

> Doing dpkg -i followed by dpkg --purge leaves the /etc/foo
> directory.  

Say hello to bugs 59343, 59344, 61531, 69553, 93037, 94409, 107174,
111841, 112439, 112515 and 113843.

Wichert.

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