An old version of a conffile is not in the current deb. Yet is is listed locally.
Some time ago, the extlinux package has renamed a conffile:
/etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d/extlinux -> /etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d/zz-extlinux.
That is, a zz- prefix was added to basename.
Indeed, http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/extlinux/filelist mentions only
zz-extlinux. I have the latest version installed. In my case, dpkg -L
mentions both zz-extlinux and extlinux. Is this a bug? (Only zz-extlinux
is mentioned in /var/lib/dpkg/info/extlinux.conffiles.) It might worth
saying that in the past, I modified the extlinux conffile, which is probably
the reason that I also have extlinux.dpkg-dist.
If I will remove the old conffile (extlinux), will dpkg notice?
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