getting dpkg to restore configuration files

[Raul Miller <rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu>]

As of version 1.1.0, dpkg no longer gives you the option of grabbing
the packaged configuration file.  This is good most of the time, but
sometimes it's important to recover the original.

Yet, for some reason, dpkg erases the original configuration file
during configuration.  Is this the right thing to do?

At the moment, the best mechanism I can see, to work around this, is
dpkg --unpack _____*.deb, mv the .dpkg-new file into place, then
dpkg --configure _____

-- 
Raul