Bug#675791: dpkg falsly marks packages as configured and having files installed

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 23:42:03 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 03.06.2012, 22:52 +0200 schrieb Guillem Jover:
> > On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 13:51:41 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > > To look if they need purging I did
> 
>         $ LANG=C dpkg -l libkprintutils4 libkutils4 gnome-themes{,-{more,extras}}
>         […]
>         rc  gnome-themes                  2.30.2-1                      official themes for the GNOME desktop
>         rc  gnome-themes-extras           2.22.0-3                      extra themes for the GNOME desktop
>         rc  gnome-themes-more             0.9.0.deb0.8                  various themes for the GNOME desktop

Just to clarify, these three are the only possibly "problematic" ones.

>         rc  libkprintutils4               4:4.7.4-6                     utility classes to deal with printing
>         rc  libkutils4                    4:4.7.4-6                     dummy transitional library

> > > and checked some manually.
> > > 
> > >         $ LANG=C dpkg -L libkprintutils4 libkutils4 gnome-themes{,-{more,extras}}
> > >         Package `libkprintutils4' does not contain any files (!)
> > > 
> > >         Package `libkutils4' does not contain any files (!)

These two are just fine though, and the fact they do not contain any
files is also ok, they are marked as still having config-files because
the package provides a postrm script which might need to do some action
on purge.

thanks,
guillem