conffiles

[Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com>]

>>>>> Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> writes:

[…]

 > BTW, "conffiles" is a pretty bad name.  It's confusing, as you can
 > see once more.

 > I thought about calling it "dpkg-conffiles" which has the advantage
 > of underlying that we leave the handling of the file to the
 > responsibility of dpkg, keeps the same old "conffiles" name.  But
 > people will continue to use the older short version of it, so...

 > Anyone with a better idea?

	umdekfiles, perhaps?  (For “User modifies, dpkg keeps [the
	changes.]”)  At the very least, I don't think anyone with half
	the sane mind will confuse them with “configuration files.”

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