Bug#982268: apt: Please add a action override suffix for purge

[Bohdan Horbeshko <bodqhrohro@gmail.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 2.1.10
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

the + and - suffixes are great, but some persons tend to purge packages
by default whenever possible, instead of removing them, and thus a
similar suffix for purge would be great to, to avoid a need to purge
removed packages after a complex operation. I suggest -- (double minus).


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-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_CRAP, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=ru_UA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_UA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ru_UA:ru
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.118
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2019.1
ii  gpgv                    2.2.20-1
ii  libapt-pkg6.0           2.1.10
ii  libc6                   2.31-3
ii  libgcc-s1               10.2.0-9
ii  libgnutls30             3.7.0-5
ii  libseccomp2             2.4.3-1+b1
ii  libstdc++6              10.2.0-9
ii  libsystemd0             246.6-2

Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20200601

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc         <none>
ii  aptitude        0.8.13-2
ii  dpkg-dev        1.20.5
ii  gnupg           2.2.20-1
ii  gnupg2          2.2.20-1
ii  powermgmt-base  1.36
ii  synaptic        0.90+nmu1

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