[Piuparts-devel] Bug#671629: piuparts: Piuparts purge order

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2012-05-05 15:48, Dave Steele wrote:
> That doesn't seem like a fair thing to do to dpkg.

It's still a bug in dpkg, even if it's not trivial to fix.

I'm preparing a branch that improves reporting of leftover files and
updates the ignore lists. I'll add a few common directories that are
usually left over by dpkg #316521, so we that we ignore these common
leftover dirs for now.

> Is there a reason for doing the purges in that order? If not, consider

Because we find more (rare) errors that way. Therefore I'm against
changing the purge order.

Andreas