I can not confirm this bug. Is this a bug for anyone anymore in Hardy or Intrepid?
Below is my terminal log: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$sudo apt-get install emacs [sudo] password for greg: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-gtk emacsen-common Suggested packages: emacs22-el The following NEW packages will be installed: emacs emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-gtk emacsen-common 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded. Need to get 21.0MB of archives. After this operation, 68.4MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main emacsen-common 1.4.17 [17.6kB] <snip> (downloading and installing, completed without error) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$sudo apt-get remove emacs Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacsen-common emacs22-gtk Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: emacs 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 12 not upgraded. After this operation, 36.9kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 147646 files and directories currently installed.) Removing emacs ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$sudo apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacsen-common emacs22-gtk The following packages will be REMOVED: emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-gtk emacsen-common 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 12 not upgraded. After this operation, 68.3MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 147642 files and directories currently installed.) Removing emacs22-gtk ... Cleaning up add-on packages... done. Removing emacs22-bin-common ... Removing emacs22-common ... dpkg - warning: while removing emacs22-common, directory `/var/games' not empty so not removed. Removing emacsen-common ... emacsen-common: Handling removal of emacsen flavor emacs ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- "emacs" package does not uninstall fully https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189798 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs