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  1. Bug #244598
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 244598

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Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout) wrote : Re: won't purge deinstalled packages

Yes, it's the expected behaviour... You can also remove them by running:
dpkg --purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f1`
as proposed here:
http://blog.moybella.net/2007/09/05/cleaning-up-after-aptget-remove/

Apart from the above, I agree with you that purge should remove the configuration files of a previously removed package...