Hi!
On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 20:53:05 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 04:02:35PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
> > Package: dpkg
> > Version: 1.15.5.6
> > Severity: minor
> > man dpkg contains:
> >
> > -r, --remove, -P, --purge package...|-a|--pending
> > Remove an installed package. -r or --remove remove
> > everything except conffiles. This may avoid having to reconfigure the
> > package if it is reinstalled later. (Conffiles are configuration files that
> > are listed in the DEBIAN/conffiles con- trol file). -P or --purge
> > removes everything, including conffiles.
> >
> > That's only partly correct. In contrast to apt-get purge, dpkg is also able
> > to purge already removed packages. This is not well described in the manual
> > page ("Remove an installed package."). I suggest to remove "installed" or
> > to rewrite it to something as "Remove an (maybe partly) installed package."
>
> If that is the case, then indeed the description does not mention it
> at all.
Yeah, I didn't fix this at the time, because I wanted to reword the
entire options description and split it. I'll try to do that for the
next release, otherwise I will just correct the specific thing reported
in here, and leave the rework for later.
Thanks,
Guillem
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