[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#576354: sysv-rc update fails due to unpurged packages, purging them doesn't help

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Brian Denheyer]
> on configuration sysv-rc update complains that acpi-support has not
> been purged when, in fact, it has been.
> 
> it may be that purging of acpi-support has some problem, but sysv-rc
> should be checking the package database which would reflect that the
> package has, in fact, been purged

What exactly are you proposing?  The message is based on the status
information provided by dpkg, and I have no idea what could be done to
improve the detection.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen