Bug#204275: dpkg --purge removes config files used by other packages

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.10
Severity: important

For instance, "dpkg --purge wget-ssl" removes /etc/wgetrc, though this
config file is used by package wget.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux ay 2.4.18-newpmac #1 Mon Jun 9 03:10:07 UTC 2003 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect                       1.10.10    a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii  libc6                         2.3.1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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