On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Paul Martin <p...@debian.org> wrote:
>> In the uninstall case, there is no conf error.
>> Daemon uninstall *should* just work, a purge should not be required.
>
> Files installed in /etc are never removed on an uninstall, only on a
> purge. That's Debian policy.

I know and that's a good thing.

> If you'd allowed any logs to accumulate, they too would have prevented
> the removal of /var/log/lighttpd/, and no error would have occurred.

I know, but we can't depend on that.

> "dpkg --purge lighttpd" will fix your problem.

No, it'll merely work around it. It won't make the piuparts error go
away either.

> "dpkg -l | grep ^rc " will show any other packages you may have that
> have been removed but not purged.

Olaf



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