[Aptitude-devel] Bug#724034: Bug#724034: Who is leaving configuration files on my computer?

[Axel Beckert]

Control: retitle -1 aptitude: "APT::Get::Purge true" seems not always honoured
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo

Hi,

jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> Who is leaving configuration files on my computer?
> It happens rarely, but still happens.
> 
> So I need to do
> # aptitude purge ~c
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   iproute{p}  isc-dhcp-client{p}  libaudit0{p}	wicd-cli{p}  wicd-curses{p}  wicd-daemon{p}  wicd-gtk{p}
> sometimes.
> 
> I use
[...]
> APT::Get::Purge true;

While using aptitude-robot and running "aptitude purge ~c" as
post-trigger I noticed that there seem to be cases where aptitude
wants to purge packages dpkg already considers purged.

In our cases we suspect a multi-arch issue. Do you use multi-arch on
that system? There was no architecture-information in your bug-report.

		Regards, Axel
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