[Aptitude-devel] Bug#674826: must still purge configuration files by hand

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.7-1
Severity: minor

Even though I have set

APT::Cache::AllVersions false;
APT::Clean-Installed false;
APT::Get::Purge true;
APT::Install-Recommends false;
Aptitude::CmdLine::Always-Prompt true;
Aptitude::Purge-Unused true;
Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Why true;//511230 at bugs.debian.org
Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Deps true;//587582 at bugs.debian.org


Under certain situations, after


# aptitude  full-upgrade
The following packages will be upgraded:
  poppler-data
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,479 kB of archives. After unpacking 5,146 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Get: 1 http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main poppler-data all 0.4.5-6 [1,479 kB]
Fetched 1,479 kB in 14s (103 kB/s)
Reading changelogs...
apt-listchanges: Mailing root: apt-listchanges: changelogs for jidanni2
dpkg: gs-cjk-resource: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
 libgs9 depends on poppler-data (>= 0.4.5-3~) | gs-cjk-resource; however:
  Version of poppler-data on system is 0.4.5-2.
  Package gs-cjk-resource is to be removed.
(Reading database ... 133626 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gs-cjk-resource ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig ...
(Reading database ... 133523 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace poppler-data 0.4.5-2 (using .../poppler-data_0.4.5-6_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement poppler-data ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig ...
Processing triggers for xpdf ...
Setting up poppler-data (0.4.5-6) ...
Current status: 0 updates [-1].


I still have to purge the ~c files by hand:


# aptitude purge ~c
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gs-cjk-resource{p} (for poppler-data)
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
(Reading database ... 133757 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gs-cjk-resource ...
Purging configuration files for gs-cjk-resource ...