On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 at 10:20, Chris Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> wrote: > I'd suggest to add the following to your package; dpkg should then > clean up the conffile automatically. Please test it, however. > > echo 'remove-on-upgrade /etc/sysctl.conf' >> debian/procps.conffiles
Oh, I've not seen that method before but I see it is in deb-conffiles(5). I was going to use in a maintscript: rm_conffile /etc/sysctl.conf 2:4.0.4-6~ but your way looks better. - Craig