[Aptitude-devel] Bug#710587: aptitude: unable to purge a package

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.9.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
I am/was trying to purge a package which has been removed (to remove
the configuration files which have remained behind) but haven't been
able to remove it.

$ aptitude search gnotski
c   gnotski                                                   -
Klotski puzzle game for GNOME (transitional package)

$ sudo aptitude purge gnotski -y
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnotski{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
D000001: deferred_remove package gnotski:all
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove gnotski which isn't installed

Now the problem is when I do an aptitude search it shows that the
package has been removed as seen in the notation 'c' while searching
for it (as seen above) but there is something in the package which was
not removed.

Can something be done about this?

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.9.1 compiled at Jul 21 2012 14:11:01
Compiler: g++ 4.7.1
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.10
  Ept support disabled.
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20130504
  cwidget version: 0.5.16
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff8895b000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
(0x00007ff5d3d22000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007ff5d3af2000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007ff5d38c8000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0
(0x00007ff5d36c3000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007ff5d33c3000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0
(0x00007ff5d3111000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0
(0x00007ff5d2ef9000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007ff5d2b16000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ff5d28f9000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007ff5d25f1000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff5d22f3000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007ff5d20dc000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff5d1d2f000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007ff5d1b2c000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007ff5d1927000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007ff5d170f000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007ff5d14ff000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007ff5d12f6000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007ff5d10f1000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff5d46d2000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (10, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.8-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.9.1-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.8.1
ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-4
ii  libc6                     2.17-3
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.4
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.8.0-9
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20130504-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.10-0.2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.17-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.8.0-9
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20130504-1
ii  libxapian22               1.2.15-2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.45
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.8.2-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.7

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  debtags  1.10.2
ii  tasksel  3.16

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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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