Bug#156132: apt: --purge is OVERACTIVE

[Hunter Peress <hu.peress@mail.mcgill.ca>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss

DOING:
apt-get --purge remove PACKAGE

then hitting yes/enter

will purge the dependencies that are also being removed. THIS SHOULD
REQUIRE AN EXTRA CONFIG.

for example, apt-get --purge remove exim purged my apache conf files and
caused me hours of trouble.

OK folks?


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux HillCountryPeress 2.4.18 #3 Sun Jul 7 01:49:51 CDT 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2        1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library