ok, and deleting it is what create your breakage now, files installed to /etc are conffile, the packaging system respect your changes, you decided you didn't want that one and it's not installing it again due to that, not a packaging bug. You probably want to use the dpkg --force- confmiss option to reinstall the package version
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