sysvinit never owned its configuration files (in particular, /etc/inittab) so I followed that lead with upstart ... it doesn't have a purge target.
It could though, but then it'd be deleting configuration files from other packages. -- doesn't hanlde console on ttyS* on ia64 https://launchpad.net/bugs/60503 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs