[Russ Allbery] >> Is the only way to make sure that conffiles do not clutter filesystem to >> remove them in maintainer's script on upgrade from previous version? > > I believe that's the case, although I'd like to get some confirmation > before adding something to Policy 10.7.3 about this. See Bug#470633. It is the case. See <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling> for information on this. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen