[Aptitude-devel] Bug#397728: aptitude should purge deleted packages at the end

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Control: close -1


Hi,

2006-11-09 01:33 Vincent Lefevre:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.4.3-1
>Severity: normal
>
>One may want to mark deleted packages as purge to get rid of obsolete
>configuration files. But some configuration files may be common to a
>package to be purged and a package to installed (this is the case when
>a package is renamed). To avoid losing the contents of these files
>(when the user has modified them), the actual purge should occur after
>installing all the packages.

aptitude passes the information from a high-level point of view from
(lib)apt to dpkg, and they decide what to do between them depending on
complex sets of rules of who-depends-on-what.

aptitude doesn't intervine directly in that process, so it cannot do
much, sorry.  Closing as +wontfix.

I think that the cases that you mention has to be handled specially by
the package being renamed, to preserve the information from before.  If
old and new packages share config files, probably this is handled
specially by dpkg.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>