Bug#109691: #109691 probably not a bug in dpkg

[Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>]

I have tested the hypothesis that dpkg will delete a
conffile that has been taken over by a Conflicts:ing
package.  I used two packages that both declare the
same conffile, the second package Conflicts:ing with
the first package.
    1. Install #1 (which installs the conffile)
    2. Install #2 (which removes #1 and takes over the conffile)
    3. Purge #1
The last step did *not* delete the conffile.

I have found that in each of the cases in which dpkg
was thought to exhibit this bug, it was (or might have
been) the first package's postrm that was at fault. 

Unless someone can prove that dpkg has this bug,
this report should be closed.

--
Thomas