Bug#150831: apt-get --purge does not work as expected
Package: apt-utils
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
debold:~# dpkg -l gs-aladdin
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
rc gs-aladdin 6.50-5 Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib
debold:~#
debold:~# apt-get --purge remove gs-aladdin
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Package gs-aladdin is not installed, so not removed
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
debold:~#
debold:~# dpkg -P gs-aladdin
(Reading database ... 37037 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gs-aladdin ...
Purging configuration files for gs-aladdin ...
IMHO apt-get --purge remove should react the same way as dpkg -P. If
this is not intended please close that bug.
H.
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