Re: Question on rm_conffile

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl>]

On 2/22/21 2:23 PM, Tong Sun wrote:
> However, when I did some research, I found that most packages put
> rm_conffile in the  .maintscript file. Where does that come from? It
> is even not in the man page. OK that I put rm_conffile in the
> .maintscript file as well, instead of in all 3 scripts (preinst,
> postinst, postrm)?

dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) refers to dh_installdeb(1) which documents
the .maintscript files, see:

 https://manpages.debian.org/buster/dpkg/dpkg-maintscript-helper.1.en.html
 https://manpages.debian.org/buster/debhelper/dh_installdeb.1.en.html

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