Dear Maintainer,

After un-installing some packages, they end up in the "Not installed (residual config)" state.
In general case, this is ok as is and we can mark them for "complete removal", but in some
case it would be interresting first to be able to check the files that remains, so we can
cross-check them before removal (my current use case being the package "sysvinit-core" for
which I would like to be sure it is not linked to some customised stuff that I need to port
to systemd's config).

Would it be thinkable to list these files in the package -> Property -> Installed Files tab,
or something similar?

Best regards,
Christophe

Thanks for your bugreport.

It should display the leftover files already when there are
any. However it seems that dpkg marks quite a few packages with
"Status: deinstall ok config-files" even if there are no config files
left. I see this on my box for e.g. abiword which afaict from a quick
glance at various old version never had a config files. This sounds
like something to talk to dpkg about.

Cheers,
 Michael