Bug#947915: release-notes: Suggest cleaning up leftover *.dpkg-old etc. config files

["Karl O. Pinc" <kop@karlpinc.com>]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 01:45:16 +0000
Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> wrote:

> (Personally I have a cronjob that nags me if it sees any *.dpkg-new,
> *.dpkg-old, *.dpkg-save, *.pam-old or *ucf-old files lying about.)

I noticed with the Buster upgrade that there are some packages
that want to do a "three way merge", which, when it fails,
uses some other long suffix for the files it leaves laying
around.  But I forget the name.

Using locate I also notice a few *.dpkg-bak files.

Regards,

Karl <kop@karlpinc.com>
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