dpkg doesn't handle removal of conffiles when they disappear from packages, so the package postinst files need to handle removing obsolete unmodified conffiles from user systems to avoid cruft building up.
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 12:49 AM, shirish शिरीष wrote: > If there are any simple commands or something which I should have used > to dig more please share those as well so I could use them the next > time something similar comes around. I use this in my template for conffile handling bugs: pkg=lirc adequate $pkg dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $pkg | grep obsolete -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise