[Pkg-nethack-devel] Bug#223496: nethack: purge of package does not remove conffiles

[Kenneth Dombrowski]

Package: nethack
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 9.3.2


the packages marked 'pn' were purged w/aptitude just today

kenneth@enlil:/etc/init.d$ dpkg -l nethack*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name               Version            Description
+++-==================-==================-====================================================
pn  nethack            <none>             (no description available)

kenneth@enlil:/etc/init.d$ dpkg -l nethack-*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name               Version            Description
+++-==================-==================-====================================================
pn  nethack-common     <none>             (no description available)
pn  nethack-console    <none>             (no description available)
un  nethack-el         <none>             (no description available)
un  nethack-gnome      <none>             (no description available)
un  nethack-lisp       <none>             (no description available)
un  nethack-qt         <none>             (no description available)
pn  nethack-spoilers   <none>             (no description available)
un  nethack-x11        <none>             (no description available)


kenneth@enlil:/etc/init.d$ ls -l ../rcS.d
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 May 23  2003 S85nethack -> ../init.d/nethack

root@enlil:/etc# rcS.d/S85nethack start
rcS.d/S85nethack: line 15: cd: /var/games/nethack: No such file or directory




System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux enlil 2.4.20-2003-03-03 #1 Mon Mar 3 14:38:11 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C