On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:11:27PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.29.1934 +0200]: > > Since purging consists only of running postrm purge and deleting > > conffiles, a package that meets these criteria does not need anything > > done to be purged, so removing it sets its state to purged. > > Makes perfect sense. This is not documented anywhere, AFAICT. I just > verified it against the source code.
I think I saw it in policy once. Yep. It's mentioned in 6.7: "Note that packages which have no postrm and no conffiles are automatically purged when removed, as there is no difference except for the dpkg status." cheers, Max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
