Yes, this is still an issue.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aptitude purge mozilla-thunderbird
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
gnome-session libcairo2 libwnck18
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mozilla-thunderbird{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 29.3MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 131486 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mozilla-thunderbird ...
Purging configuration files for mozilla-thunderbird ...
rmdir: /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/chrome/: No such file or directory
rmdir: /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/chrome/: No such file or directory
dpkg - warning: while removing mozilla-thunderbird, directory
`/etc/mozilla-thunderbird' not empty so not removed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-02-20 09:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 128 root root 8192 2007-02-16 16:34 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 228 2006-11-14 16:04 auto-config.js
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
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purging configuration files does not do its job
https://launchpad.net/bugs/54167
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