On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 06:12:24AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > Not wanting to start another flame war, but ... > > On Sa, 05 Dez 2009, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > > The crux is the last point. For a good reason postrm must not require > > tools it depends on to be around when removing the package itself. > > making dpkg policy compliant would help, too, then we removed package > can expect dependcies to be present.
Seems like this would be tough work for dpkg to handle ;) Apart from this (Warning: What comes next is not really thought about): Would it be an option to let dpkg support the purge action in its prerm script and run ucf --purge therein? Is this possible at all? Regards, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org