[Bug 815844] Re: apt-get purge does nothing

[Jonathan Thomas]

** Package changed: synaptic (Ubuntu) => apt (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  apt-get purge does nothing

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On natty.

  To reproduce

  1) Set up things so that you have a package that is not installed, but for which configuration data is still present on the system
  (not installed with residual config in synaptic).

  2) at the prompt type
  sudo apt-get purge <package>
  or
  sudo apt-get --purge remove <package>

  What happens:

  You see something like the following

  sudo apt-get remove --purge grub
  [sudo] password for callegar: 
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    grub*
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

  And the package is not purged

  What should happen

  You should see something like

  sudo apt-get remove --purge grub
  [sudo] password for callegar: 
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    grub*
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Do you want to continue (y/n)?

  And by saying yes you should have the package purged

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