So, what do you suggest for this? Of course, this file _is_ a conffile (i.e. should never be automatically overwritten, so just moving it over to /var/lib is not just compiling with a different path set). If I don't automatically upgrade the file, users will end up with a confused daemon unable and unwilling to move on. How should I proceed with this?
My understanding is in this situation the correct soloution is not to ship the file in the package at all and then have the maintainer scripts create/edit it on install/upgrade.