On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Brian May wrote: > On 10 April 2012 16:06, Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org> wrote: > >> dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs --no-run-if-empty dpkg --purge > >> > > That's a pretty dangerous line. People (sometimes) don't purge packages > > for a reason, you might lose data here. > > Under some circumstances it can delete configuration files that are in > use by active packages. > > e.g. package b replaces package a, however uses the same set of > configuration files - purge package a and it will delete the > configuration > files now in use by package b.
Err, no. At least dpkg shouldn't do that. If you can reproduce it, please file a bug. (Make sure it's not some postrm that is badly behaving) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120411061929.gf8...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com