reassign 135688 libgnome2-0 thanks > > the directory `/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0' and the `modules' and `vfolders' still > > exist (empty). /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders does not exist in the deb. So, dpkg doesn't know about it, so will not clean it up. The postrm for libgnome2-0 must remove that, or, if another package has created that dir, then it must remove it. dpkg is behaving as it should.