Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org> writes: > Nope... In this case, every conffile in one package is also in the other - > thats why the sendmail.list file became empty, and the package *SHOULD* > disappear. conffiles are /not/ the only distinction between removed and purged packages. A postrm can do other things on purge (e.g. delete logs) that I wouldn't want done automatically because of a conflict. Perhaps sendmail's postrm doesn't do anything like that, but dpkg can't know this. So this decision is punted to the user. > 2) Why did the subsequent purge erase /etc/init.d/sendmail despite > the explicit exit 0 above This I don't know. I can't get any information on sendmail-tls. Where does this package hail from? -- Robbe
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