Subject: purged package has conffiles

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 96 18:22 EDT

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.2.2elf    

I installed fdutils-4.3-1 and getty-1.0-4 which finally replaced whatever I
had left from the now deceased miscutils package which was therefore purged.
Quite amazing actually how well the package dependency scheme works.

The only thing that worries me a little is that two conffiles still seem to
belong to miscutils even though miscutils was automagically purged

    miles:~ [root] # dpkg -s miscutils
    Package: miscutils
    Status: purge ok not-installed
    Priority: required
    Section: base
    Conffiles:
     /etc/fdprm 7213ed72fc15d0184b428cb34df34d2d
     /etc/securetty b2786c62a3aa9a21df2f3e4eb9e42ecd      

and, more worrying, also belong to two other packages. The login package took
over /etc/securetty, and getty took over /etc/fdprm.  So shouldn't they be
removed from the miscutils status display?

-- 
Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 96 02:11 BST

Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("purged package has conffiles"):
...
> removed from the miscutils status display?

Ooops.  They should.  I *think* there are no serious harmful effects
from this bug.

I've fixed it for dpkg 1.2.4 (which will also remove these spurious
entries from the status file).

Ian.