Package: logcheck Version: 1.4.2 Dear maintainer:
On a Debian 11 system where logcheck is installed, removing /etc/logcheck/header.txt and then upgrading to Debian 12 makes such file to reappear again. This is against Debian Policy, which says changes in configuration files (which I believe it includes removing) must be preserved. Previously, header.txt was "a configuration file which is not a conffile in the dpkg sense", so it was created at the first install to never touch it again. This old behaviour was in fact the result of this suggestion I made more than 20 years ago: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=191891 and it worked well enough for a lot of time. I'd also like to mention that while bug #1039591 is now fixed, keeping the file as a configuration file which is not a conffile (i.e. handled by postinst) would have avoided such bug as well. (Note: I'm not using any particular severity, but I believe this to be a regression of the type that deserves a fix in stable). Thanks.
