diff --git a/packaging/ceralive-modem-support/debian/postrm b/packaging/ceralive-modem-support/debian/postrm
index a4a6ea8..3c6dd82 100755
--- a/packaging/ceralive-modem-support/debian/postrm
+++ b/packaging/ceralive-modem-support/debian/postrm
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # postrm for ceralive-modem-support.
 #
 # On PURGE, retire the runtime state this package's helper creates but does not own as
-# packaged files: the ACTIVE fcc-unlock symlinks it wrote into ModemManager's multiarch
-# directory. Those are symlinks into /usr/share/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.d, so removing
+# packaged files: the ACTIVE fcc-unlock symlinks it wrote into ModemManager's admin
+# directory. Those are symlinks into /usr/share/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.available.d, so removing
 # them removes nothing of ModemManager's own — but leaving them behind would let a purged
 # package keep a radio's FCC-unlock script active, which is exactly the state todo 33
 # forbids by default.
@@ -12,23 +12,22 @@
 # is left strictly alone: it is not ours.
 set -e
 
-AVAILABLE_DIR=/usr/share/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.d
+AVAILABLE_DIR=/usr/share/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.available.d
+ACTIVE_DIR=/etc/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.d
 
 purge_active_fcc_symlinks() {
-    for dir in /usr/lib/*/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.d; do
-        [ -d "$dir" ] || continue
-        for link in "$dir"/*; do
-            [ -L "$link" ] || continue
-            target="$(readlink -f "$link" 2>/dev/null || true)"
-            case "$target" in
-                "$AVAILABLE_DIR"/*)
-                    rm -f "$link"
-                    echo "ceralive-modem-support: purge removed active FCC-unlock symlink $link"
-                    ;;
-            esac
-        done
-        rmdir "$dir" 2>/dev/null || true
+    [ -d "$ACTIVE_DIR" ] || return 0
+    for link in "$ACTIVE_DIR"/*; do
+        [ -L "$link" ] || continue
+        target="$(readlink -f "$link" 2>/dev/null || true)"
+        case "$target" in
+            "$AVAILABLE_DIR"/*)
+                rm -f "$link"
+                echo "ceralive-modem-support: purge removed active FCC-unlock symlink $link"
+                ;;
+        esac
     done
+    rmdir "$ACTIVE_DIR" 2>/dev/null || true
 }
 
 case "$1" in
diff --git a/packaging/ci/test-companion-chroot.sh b/packaging/ci/test-companion-chroot.sh
index e880a64..d6259ef 100755
--- a/packaging/ci/test-companion-chroot.sh
+++ b/packaging/ci/test-companion-chroot.sh
@@ -237,8 +237,8 @@ if apt-get install -y -qq --allow-downgrades "$OLD" >/tmp/down.log 2>&1; then ok
 [ "$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Version}' ceralive-modem-support)" = "0.9.0" ] && ok "downgraded to 0.9.0" || bad "downgrade did not take"
 
 echo "== 9. purge leaves zero leftovers =="
-mkdir -p "$ACTIVE"; ln -sfn /usr/share/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.d/2c7c "$ACTIVE/2c7c"
-printf 'not ours\n' > /usr/share/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.d/keepme
+mkdir -p "$ACTIVE"; ln -sfn /usr/share/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.available.d/2c7c "$ACTIVE/2c7c"
+printf 'not ours\n' > "$ACTIVE/keepme"
 if dpkg -P ceralive-modem-support >/tmp/purge.log 2>&1; then ok "dpkg -P exit 0"; else bad "purge failed"; cat /tmp/purge.log; fi
 if dpkg -L ceralive-modem-support >/dev/null 2>&1; then bad "dpkg -L still resolves after purge"; else ok "dpkg -L errors after purge"; fi
 left=0
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ for d in /usr/lib/ceralive-modem-support /usr/share/ceralive-modem-support; do
   [ -e "$d" ] && { bad "leftover directory after purge: $d"; left=1; }
 done
 [ -L "$ACTIVE/2c7c" ] && { bad "purge left an active FCC symlink behind"; left=1; }
-[ -f /usr/share/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.d/keepme ] || { bad "purge deleted a file that was not ours"; left=1; }
+[ -f "$ACTIVE/keepme" ] || { bad "purge deleted a file that was not ours"; left=1; }
 [ "$left" -eq 0 ] && ok "zero leftovers over every declared path; foreign files untouched"
 
 echo