Bug#295885: Shouldn't purge config files when ssh-krb5 is installed

[Matthew Vernon <matthew@sel.cam.ac.uk>]

On 18 Feb 2005, at 13:14, Per Olofsson wrote:

> Matthew Vernon:
> > The operation "purge but keep configuration files" is called "remove".
> > If you want to keep the config files, remove ssh, don't purge it.
>
> Well, I'm not using the ssh package anymore so I should be able to
> purge it. It shouldn't remove configuration files which it doesn't own
> anymore, these files are owned by ssh-krb5 now. This is what happens
> with the conffiles, but not with the non-conffiles.

You appear to misunderstand dpkg's operation. If you're finished with a 
package, but don't want to lose the configuration files, then you 
remove it. "purge" simply does "remove", then deletes the configuration 
files. If that's not what you want, don't use "purge".

Matthew

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Matthew Vernon MA VetMB LGSM MRCVS
Farm Animal Epidemiology and Informatics Unit
Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge