On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 12:35:33AM +0200, Reiner Herrmann wrote: > I understand that it is a problem that files are not cleaned up. > But when they are not automatically removed, this means that the user > has manually touched/modified them. The changes made either to the > includes or to profiles could still be relevant and in use by some > files, e.g. the user could be maintaining an extensive blacklist in > disable-secret.inc. > So even if they are no longer part of upstream's set of profiles, they > might not be obsolete in all cases.
I seem to have confused something. I thought obsolete conffiles would already be removed automatically if they have not been touched, but this is not the case. After reading dpkg-maintscript-helper(1), rm_conffile sounds much more graceful than I expected. I will provide better cleanup in the next upload. Thanks for the suggestion!
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