Bug#655514: proftpd-basic: When doing dpkg --purge proftpd-basic everything under /srv/ftp is wiped

[J G Miller]

Package: proftpd-basic
Version: 1.3.4a-1
Severity: normal

If the installation of proftpd-basic is removed with dpkg --purge,
everything under /srv/ftp is wiped.

As /srv/ftp most likely contains the archive file collection for
distribution by anonymous ftp, is it really a good idea to do
a complete removal of this directory and any sub-directories?

If the directory contains a sub-directory, then the dpkg --purge
process should say "directory not empty, not removing" as is
usual for other packages when other packages are purged and
files other than configuration files are found in a directory.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages proftpd-basic depends on:
ii  adduser         3.113
ii  debconf         1.5.41
ii  debianutils     4.1
ii  libacl1         2.2.51-5
ii  libc6           2.13-24
ii  libcap2         1:2.22-1
ii  libncurses5     5.9-4
ii  libpam-runtime  1.1.3-6
ii  libpam0g        1.1.3-6
ii  libpcre3        8.12-4
ii  libssl1.0.0     1.0.0e-3
ii  libtinfo5       5.9-4
ii  libwrap0        7.6.q-21
ii  netbase         4.47
ii  sed             4.2.1-9
ii  ucf             3.0025+nmu2
ii  update-inetd    4.41
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

proftpd-basic recommends no packages.

Versions of packages proftpd-basic suggests:
ii  openssl                    1.0.0e-3
ii  proftpd-doc                1.3.4a-1
ii  proftpd-mod-ldap           1.3.4a-1
ii  proftpd-mod-mysql          <none>
ii  proftpd-mod-odbc           <none>
ii  proftpd-mod-pgsql          <none>
ii  proftpd-mod-sqlite         <none>
ii  xinetd [inet-superserver]  1:2.3.14-7

-- debconf information excluded