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Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 13:30:56 -0500
From: "Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>
Organization: Verisim, Inc.  http://www.verisim.com/
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To: Debian Bugs <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: dpkg doesn't delete directories that had conffiles
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.7

When removing a package, dpkg gives warnings that it cannot remove
directories because it is not empty.  The files that still exist
are conffiles.  (It would be nice if these warnings could be supressed
if the only files remaining are conffiles, but that would be non-trivial
and isn't really important.)

However, on a "--purge", dpkg needs to try to remove the directories
again.  Currently, it just leaves them around forever.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )
                                             
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