Bug#270967: Why purging gconf2-common might erase your /etc

[Adrian Bunk]

severity 270967 critical
thanks

Hi Sebastien,

I think I can answer the following question you raised:

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The weird point is that running "sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/gconf2.postrm
purge" doesn't display any error, but the same line called by apt raises
an error ...

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The problem is only triggered when /etc/gconf2/ is empty.


cu
Adrian

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