Bug#270967: gconf2 try's to remove /etc completely when purging

Klaus Ethgen Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>, 270967@bugs.debian.org
Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:45:04 +0200


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Package: gconf2
Version: 2.6.3-2
Severity: critical

When removing (purging) gconf2 it trys to remove /etc c ompletely!

This will destroy the whole system if /etc can be removed on it and is not
protected as on my system.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (70, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE)

Versions of packages gconf2 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.6.1-3      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
pn  libgconf2-4                              Not found.
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.4.6-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.4.9-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.4.1-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libxml2                     2.6.11-3     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1.1-5  compression library - runtime

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Klaus Ethgen                            http://www.ethgen.de/
pub  2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>
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