On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:44:39AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Making a package essential in order to avoid a if clause in > postinsts is very likely too frivolous a reason to pass muster, yes. I do not want to avoid the if-clause. I want to avoid leaving modified files around when removing a package, that modified them (indirectly) in the first place. Regards, Patrick