Re: Removing obsolete configuration files?

["Gergely Nagy" <algernon@boszorka.mad.hu>]

> If a previous version of a package had configuration files (not
> conffiles), but the newer version of the package does not (and no other
> configuration file replaces it), should the new package on upgrade
> remove the old configuration files or just keep them lying around?  I
> could not derive the correct answer to this question from the policy.

I'd vote for keeping it around - /etc might be shared between computers
running different versions, and removing the file might have bad results
on those boxen that weren't upgraded yet..