On 19/01/17 01:44, Paul Wise wrote:
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.
Thanks fpr reply. Since none of the files flagged by adequate are actually obsolete I will close this bug shortly.
Question is still *why* adequate flagged these files as obsolete... Cheers! --aled