Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.5.6
Severity: minor
Hi,
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."
Jens
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