Paul Rightley wrote:
>
> I have been using Debian on my machine at work for quite some time.
> When the box was upgraded to Debian 1.2, it was left with one
> "obsolete" package - base. Just as a matter of compulsive
> cleanliness - will we ever be able to purge base or will there
> always be one obsolete package popping up in deselect?
I've been able to clean out such things by carefully editing the
/var/lib/dpkg/status file.
I think I've sucessfully both removed the entry or sometimes just
changed the status to:
Status: purge ok not-installed
Usually there have been few or no files left over from the old package;
just the status file entry.
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