Bug#30122: PROPOSED] Fix bad advice about conffile management

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

Raul Miller wrote:
> Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org> wrote:
> > ==== New Version =========================================================
> > 
> >      If two or more packages use the same configuration file, one of
> >      these packages has to be defined as _owner_ of the configuration
> >      file, i.e., it has to list the file as `conffile'. The other
> >      packages have to depend on the owner package.
> 
> I don't see that this is necessary if all these packages conflict.

Unfortunately, it is.  A conflict is satisfied if the conflicting package
is removed; it does not have to be purged.  So its conffiles can still be
on the system.  This is the one case where conflicting packages can have
file overlaps.

Richard Braakman