Bug#182368: apt: user often sees spurious "not empty so not removed" on --purge

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

reassign 182368 dpkg
severity 182368 normal
merge 112386 182368
thanks

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:06:53AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.4
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /usr/bin/apt-get
> 
> Please consider the user's impression upon purging many packages,
> e.g.,
> 
>     # apt-get --purge remove dhcp-client
>     Reading Package Lists... Done
>     Building Dependency Tree... Done
>     The following packages will be REMOVED:
>       dhcp-client* 
>     0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 216  not upgraded.
>     Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 348kB will be freed.
>     Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
>     (Reading database ... 214035 files and directories currently installed.)
>     Removing dhcp-client ...
>     dpkg - warning: while removing dhcp-client, directory `/var/lib/dhcp'
>         not empty so not removed.
>     Purging configuration files for dhcp-client ...
>     # ls -l /var/lib/dhcp
>     ls: /var/lib/dhcp: No such file or directory
> 
> I.e., please figure out a way to show that maybe indeed that dir got
> removed later when running postrm, etc.

This has nothing to do with apt, and has already been reported against
dpkg. Reassigning and merging.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]